Mitch McConnell, speaking on the record shortly after voting to acquit Trump, acknowledged that Trump did terrible things — awful things that shook the very foundations of the Republic.  

McConnell declared that in the two months between the election and January 6, Trump spread the Big Lie over and over again, stoking rage that built among his supporters by feeding them false and dangerous accusations that the 2020 Presidential Election had been stolen from him – and them.

He then brought his incensed mob to Washington, D.C. on the 6^th, whipped them into a frenzy with a fiery speech, and then unleashed them onto the Capitol, where they wreaked havoc, overpowering police and overrunning the building, desecrating it and terrorizing the occupants and those seeking to protect it, specifically targeting Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.  McConnell lays the blame squarely on Trump:

Yet despite this view, McConnell voted to “acquit” Trump. He explained his vote this way: “Because the Senate rebuffed the House when it sent over the Articles of Impeachment while I held the Senate out of session, and the resulting delay in reconvening the Senate caused the Impeachment Trial to take place after Trump left office, I had to let Trump off scot free. I had no choice. It’s not my fault!” 

But Mitch really, really hopes that some other authority pursues Trump, and the jury in that case has more courage than McConnell and most of his Republican Senate colleagues, so Trump can be held accountable for the horrible, seditious things that McConnell acknowledges Trump did, but refused to convict him of. So how can people say McConnell is not an honorable man??