Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) criticized Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY.) for meeting with Donald Trump on Thursday during the former president’s first visit to the Capitol for the first time since the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
“Mitch McConnell knows Trump provoked the violent attack on our Capitol and then “watched television happily” as his mob brutally beat police officers and hunted the Vice President,” Cheney wrote in a post on X.
She continued: “He knows Trump refused for hours to tell his mob to leave and “even then with police officers bleeding…he kept repeating his election lies and praising the criminals.” He knows Trump committed a “disgraceful dereliction of duty” and is a danger to our Republic. Trump and his collaborators will be defeated, and history will remember the shame of people like [Leader McConnell] who enabled them.”
McConnell joined Republican senators at a meeting with Trump on Thursday. It was the first time the former president is visiting the Capitol after he incited a mob of his supporters to storm the building on Jan. 6, 2021 to stop the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory.
McConnell has been feuding with Trump since the former left office and has blamed the former president for the attack.
But, they appeared to have reconciled on Thursday.
McConnell desceibed his meeting with Trump as “positive.”
“He and I got a chance to talk, we shook hands a few times. He got a lot of standing ovations,” he said. “It was an entirely positive meeting. I can’t think of anything to tell you out of it that was negative.”
