added:
“He spoke at length about the unfortunate coincidence of timing that he said deprived the Senate of jurisdiction in the trial, alluding to ‘scheduling decisions’ by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to withhold the impeachment charge until Mr. Trump had left office. He did not dwell on his own refusal to call the Senate back to hear the case while Mr. Trump was still president, except to say that he had been right ‘not to entertain some light-speed sham process to try to outrun the loss of jurisdiction.’”
Hulse and Fandos also
wrote that angry Democrats saw the maneuver as vintage McConnell:
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