Though Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell may have made several people very happy by securing the acquittal of President Donald Trump, one of the his biggest political rivals had choice words for the Kentucky Republican.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., issued a statement Wednesday following the conclusion of Trump's impeachment trial. Without naming her nemesis, Pelosi called McConnell "cowardly" and a "rogue leader."

"The President and Senate Republicans have normalized lawlessness and rejected the system of checks and balances of our Constitution," Pelosi said. "Our Founders put safeguards in the Constitution to protect against a rogue president. They never imagined that they would at the same time have a rogue leader in the Senate who would cowardly abandon his duty to uphold the Constitution."

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McConnell also didn't hold any punches when talking about Pelosi. Discussing how the House speaker tore up Trump's State of the Union remarks immediately after the address, McConnell said " We ought to be able to disagree and not behave like a bunch of children."

"How childish and petty is that?" McConnell told Fox News Wednesday evening. "What kind of example does that set for the American people about how we ought to conduct ourselves? I mean, have we forgotten how to be civil to each other?"

McConnell and Paul were two of 50 and 51 senators to strike down the two articles of impeachment passed by the House of Representatives in December, which ensured Trump would remain in office.

Following the vote, the Senate majority leader took a victory lap and mocked his Democratic opposition.

"Right now, this is a political loser for them," McConnell said Wednesday. "They initiated it. They thought this was a great idea. And at least for the short term, it has been a colossal political mistake.”

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McConnell and Pelosi had a tense relationship with one another throughout the impeachment trial. Particularly after the House passed the articles Dec. 18, the two Congressional leaders played a game of chicken: Pelosi said she would not send the articles over until McConnell agreed to a set of arranged set of witnesses, and McConnell said he would not hold a vote on witnesses until after opening arguments.

Pelosi ultimately lost this contest, sending over the articles of impeachment to the Senate in January.

The House speaker was not the only Democrat to criticize McConnell following the impeachment vote. State Rep. Charles Booker, who hopes to win the Democratic nomination to challenge McConnell for his Senate seat, said the majority leader "sold out Kentuckians on a false hope that it will help him stay in power."

"Whether you believe Donald Trump should be removed or acquitted, we can all agree that Mitch McConnell did a disservice to all Americans by making a mockery of our democracy for the whole world to watch," Booker said in a statement Wednesday.

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