After Bill Taylor’s devastating testimony, Mitch McConnell cuts his losses and throws Donald Trump way under the bus

| 7:15 pm EDT October 22, 2019
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All along, Palmer Report has pointed out that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is the kind of pragmatically corrupt villain who is only in it for himself, and – if it ever became necessary – would selfishly throw Donald Trump under the bus in a heartbeat. McConnell just signaled that the moment is upon us.

The State Department’s Bill Taylor gave testimony today that everyone who was in the room agreed was utterly devastating to Donald Trump. Taylor’s notes are apparently a smoking gun that proves Trump was indeed directly running a quid pro quo scheme against Ukraine, in an attempt at extorting the nation into helping rig the 2020 U.S. presidential election. This was apparently enough for Mitch McConnell to decide that Trump is toast, and this evening McConnell has begun throwing Trump way under the bus.

For quite some time now, Donald Trump has been publicly claiming that Mitch McConnell called him and told him that his phone call with Ukraine was “perfect.” Now, suddenly, McConnell is asserting that this never happened. McConnell says this of Trump and Ukraine: “We’ve not had any conversations on that subject.” Notably, McConnell has never previously bothered to push back against Trump on this until just now. But that was just the start.

Mitch McConnell also announced this evening that he plans to have the Senate rebuke Donald Trump not just for his disastrous Syria pullout, but also for Trump’s other various foreign policy disasters, according to Reuters. This goes above and beyond the resolution passed by the House that’s currently sitting on McConnell’s desk.

Make no mistake: Mitch McConnell hasn’t suddenly turned over a new leaf. He hasn’t decided that he now has to do the right thing for its own sake. He’s simply decided that Donald Trump is now such damaged goods, his best move is to start kicking Trump while he’s down. McConnell has to worry about his own 2020 reelection, and trying to keep a majority in the Senate. McConnell likes to play both sides, so he may keep speaking out against the idea of impeaching and removing Trump. But McConnell’s moves this evening are setting up Trump’s ouster, and McConnell knows it.