McConnell blasts House impeachment, pledges Senate action

The top Senate Republican on Thursday denounced the "most unfair" House impeachment of President Donald Trump and reassured Trump and his supporters that "moments like this are why the United States Senate exists." Signalling in the strongest terms yet that the GOP-controlled Senate will acquit Trump, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky declared that the House impeachment "risks deeply damaging the institutions of American government." As for what the Senate should do, the Kentucky Repub