Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday said he was defending the U.S. Constitution, and not Donald Trump, by voting to acquit the former president of an impeachment charge of inciting an insurrection. MCCONNELL RIPS TRUMP, SAYS ACTIONS 'UNCONSCIONABLE' BUT TRIAL WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL"There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility," McConnell wrote, saying his supporters stormed the Capitol because of the "unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world's largest megaphone." Trump was the first president in U.S. history to be impeached twice, and the first president out of office to go through an impeachment proceeding. "The Constitution presupposes that anyone convicted by the Senate must have an office from which to be removed," McConnell explained. McConnell countered that "no remotely fair or regular Senate process could have started and finished in less than one week," saying that "even the brisk impeachment process we just concluded took 19 days."

Source: Fox News February 16, 2021 15:56 UTC