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Mitch McConnell Breaks With Trump on Absolute Presidential Immunity
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Does he think the current date is sometime before February 2021?
He's referring to what he said when the Senate acquited Trump after he was impeached by the House.
Trump's lawyers are trying to argue that he can't be prosecuted by the courts for actions he took as president unless he is first impeached and convicted in Congress for those actions. When Trump was impeached and acquitted in 2021, McConnell stated that Congress can't impeach him as he is no longer in office and that the matter is an issue for the criminal justice system.
As shit as McConnell is, he is not confused with his dates right now, and his statements from 2021 are very relevant to this case and have been discussed in the news a lot recently.
I'm also not sure what's wrong with your quoted text. Nothing about it sounds confused to me.
US News (Feb 14, 2021): Text of McConnell's Speech
Thanks for the clarification and sources. It was just the way I read it from the article. Not suggesting he was confused in general about the content, just the current date
He’s referring to his own prior statement on Feb 13 2021. He’s losing his faculties but this particular item is not an example of that.
Ol' Glitch.