Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) called out President Donald Trump for pardoning the Capitol rioters while revealing he has not spoken with the president for “quite a while.”
Hours after being inaugurated back into the Oval Office, Trump pardoned nearly 1,500 people currently imprisoned for rioting at the Capitol on January 6th, 2021. Some of the rioters were convicted of violence against law enforcement.
During a 60 Minutes interview with anchor Leslie Stahl on Sunday, the former Senate majority leader revealed that he has not talked to Trump for “quite a while” because he was upset over January 6th. McConnell then went on to call Trump’s recent pardons a “mistake.”
STAHL: How would you describe your relationship with President Trump?
MCCONNELL: Well, we haven’t spoken for quite a while. I was very upset about what happened January 6.
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STAHL: What are your views on President Trump and his supporters trying to change what happened on January 6? They’re calling it a “day of love.” They called the rioters “martyrs.”
MCCONNELL: Yeah. No, it– it was an insurrection.
STAHL: What about the pardons for the people who stormed the Capitol that day?
MCCONNELL: I– I think pardoning the people who’ve been convicted is a mistake.
Watch the clip above via CBS News.
