Mitch McConnell Reacts to critics Following voting to acquit Donald Trump

"However, after intense research, I reasoned that Article II, Section 4 restricts impeachment and certainty to present officers," he wrote.

Trump blasted the senator at a lengthy press release Tuesday afternoon, calling McConnell that a"dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack, and when Republican Senators will stay together, they won't win "

"The Republican Party can not be respected or powerful using political'leaders' such as Sen. Mitch McConnell in its helm," the president said at the infrequent announcement issued because he left office. "McConnell's devotion to business as normal, status quo policies, together with his lack of political consciousness, intellect, ability, and character, has quickly pushed him Majority Leader into Minority Leader, and it'll only get worse"

Trump also took charge for McConnell's reelection -- stating he regrets the approval -- and blamed him for losing control of the Senate with just two Democratic victories in Georgia.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi contended on Saturday the McConnell postponed a trial while Trump was in workplace by not bringing the Senate back before Jan. 19, a day before Trump was going to depart the White House.

"it's indeed pathetic that Senator McConnell maintained the Senate closed down to ensure the Senate couldn't get the article of impeachment, and it has used as his excuse for not voting to convict Donald Trump," Pelosi said.

"Here is exactly what the scheduling critics are actually saying: Senate Republicans must have followed a hurried House procedure using a light-speed Senate sham," McConnell responded. "They believe we ought to have shredded due procedure and sparked a constitutional crisis at a footrace to outrun our reduction of authority."

"Consider the promise that I might have steered round the jurisdictional problem by remembering that the Senate between Jan. 14 and Jan. 20, while Mr. Trump was in office," he wrote. "The date isn't the trial's beginning but the conclusion, once the punishment of removal from office has to be possible. No remotely average or routine Senate procedure might have begun and completed in under 1 week. The lively impeachment procedure we just reasoned took 19 days."

Another called this critical question"that a loophole. But many seemingly cannot withstand the exact same temptation."

"President Biden, that understands the Senate, said as early as Jan. 8 which his swearing-in was the'fastest' possible route to altering the occupant of the White House. Particularly since the House did not vote before Jan. 13, some valid Senate procedure was sure to finish after Inauguration Day," McConnell lasted, a stage he contended last month, also.

The Senate voted Tuesday, 55-45, to confirm its power which Trump trial was within their jurisdiction to move.

When the trial kicked off at the Senate in earnest it had been finished in five times -- the presidential impeachment trial in history.

In floor remarks Saturday following his acquittal vote,'' McConnell excoriated his former president and stated that there was"no query" Trump had been"practically and morally accountable for sparking the events of this afternoon."

He explained,"If President Trump were in office, I'd have carefully considered if the House directors proved their particular charge" -- but given that choice, because Trump had been impeached by the House on Wednesday, Jan. 13, he didn't use it as Democrats, such as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, openly encouraged him to call the Senate back for an emergency session to start the trial.

"It was clear that just President Trump could finish that," McConnell said Saturday. "The president didn't act quickly. He didn't do his job."

Since McConnell immediately agreed with their situation but remained determined the Senate lacked authority to try out a former presidentHouse impeachment managers chose not to call witnesses after getting enough votes to do so, demonstrating the importance of his vote.

"We might have had 5,000 witnesses and Mitch McConnell could have made the exact same address because what he is claiming is that the Senate never has jurisdiction within a former president," direct House impeachment managers Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., stated. "And for reasons I do not have to belabor -- as a major portion of the trial was all about that -- we reject that entirely. It is completely at odds with our history"

"President Trump remains accountable for what he did while he is in office," he said on Saturday. "He did not eliminate anything "

But he didn't make mention of the course in his op-ed. Maybe in an effort to construct unity in his celebration that's facing huge fissures, McConnell composed he respects the decision of their seven Republicans who voted to convict, encouraged by their own interpretation of this Constitution.

"I admire senators who reached the exact opposite response," he wrote. "What deserve no regard would be asserts which constitutional concerns are trivialities that brave senators could have disregarded."