Impeachment Was Result of ‘Partisan Rage,’ Giving In to ‘Temptation’: McConnell

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) at a press conference in Washington on Dec. 17, 2019. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

The impeachment of Republican President Donald Trump was a result of “partisan rage,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on the Senate floor in Washington on Dec. 19.

“Last night, House Democrats finally did what they had decided to do a long time ago: They voted to impeach President Donald Trump,” he said, calling the impeachment inquiry the “most rushed, least thorough” in “modern history.”