
President Donald Trump's decision to pardon roughly 1,500 defendants charged and/or convicted in connection with the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol isn't going over well with one high-profile Senate Republican. On Tuesday, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) — who was the Republican leader in the U.S. Senate for 17 years — openly criticized the 47th president of the United States in an interview with Semafor. McConnell referenced Vice President JD Vance's remarks a week before the inauguration in which he said that January 6 rioters who attacked police...