On Tuesday, nearly a month after the House of Representatives officially voted to impeach Donald Trump, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the House would vote Wednesday to send its impeachment charges to the Senate, kicking off a process that will likely result in a trial starting next week. “The American people deserve the truth, and the Constitution demands a trial,” Pelosi said in a statement. “The House will now proceed with a vote on transmitting the articles of impeachment and naming impeachment managers on Wednesday, January 15.” Referencing the fact that Senate Republicans like Mitch McConnell have refused to hear new, relevant information concerning the president’s attempt to extort Ukraine for his personal benefit, Pelosi noted that “the American people will fully understand the Senate’s move to begin the trial without witnesses and documents as a pure political cover-up. Leader McConnell and the president are afraid of more facts coming to light.” And that represented the high point of her comments about the senator from Kentucky.

Speaking at a closed-door meeting of her caucus about the Russian hack into Burisma, i.e., the Ukrainian energy company whose dealings with Hunter Biden and Joe Biden Trump tried to get President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate, Pelosi reportedly tore McConnell a proverbial new one, charging that he’s acting like a rogue leader, an accusation she also made last month that is, of course, entirely accurate. Sources told CNN that Pelosi then “mused that sometimes she wonders whether McConnell has Russian connections.”

McConnell does not appear to have responded to Pelosi’s comments, though based on his previous reaction to similar allegations, he’s likely already thrown several hissy fits in his Senate office. Last July, when the Washington Post ran an op-ed saying that McConnell “is, arguably more than any other American, doing Russian president Vladimir Putin’s bidding,” after he blocked numerous bills intended to prevent election meddling—including one that would have required presidential campaigns to report any offers of assistance from agents of foreign governments—McConnell had a massive conniption on the Senate floor. “I was called unpatriotic, un-American, and, essentially, treasonous by a couple of left-wing pundits on the basis of boldfaced lies,” he whined. “I was accused of ‘aiding and abetting’ the very man I’ve singled out as our adversary and opposed for nearly 20 years: Vladimir Putin.” He went on to describe the op-ed and other attacks as “modern-day McCarthyism,” claiming “these pundits are lying when they dismiss the work that has been done,” and failing to mention all the bills he kneecapped that would protect U.S. elections, perhaps because such interference would benefit Republicans like himself and the president.

So yeah, an angry tantrum is probably around the corner.

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