WASHINGTON — Mitch McConnell said Donald Trump “provoked” a violent mob. Roy Blunt called the former president’s actions “reckless.” Lindsey Graham declared that “enough is enough.”
Earlier this month, it appeared leading Republican senators were headed toward their most significant break with Trump yet after his supporters conducted a deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol. But that dynamic quickly changed.
After only a handful of House Republicans voted to impeach Trump and faced swift backlash from the party’s base, most of their GOP colleagues in the Senate voted to dismiss the trial altogether as unconstitutional.
