WASHINGTON (AP) — Three years ago,
Donald Trump had few friends left in the Senate.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell declared in a speech that Trump was “practically and morally responsible” for the violent
Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by spreading “wild falsehoods” about election fraud and trying to overturn his reelection defeat.
Trump is now the party’s presumptive nominee to challenge President Joe Biden. And on Thursday,
he returned to Capitol Hill to meet with Republicans to enthusiastic and near-unanimous support from the Senate GOP conference, including many of the same senators who condemned him for his actions as he tried to block President Joe Biden’s legitimate victory.
McConnell shook his hand, multiple times, and gave him a fist bump.
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