hypocritical, wishy-washy, feeble
The term Murky Mitch is a reference to
Republican Addison Mitchell McConnell Jr. who as Senate Minority Leader of the 117th Congress voted to acquit former United States President Donald J.
Trump during his second impeachment trial. The former president was alleged to have incited an insurrection on Capitol Hill on January 6th 2021.
Donald
Trump was impeached while in office as the 45th president on January 13th 2021 for the above allegation.
Mr. McConnell delayed the Senate impeachment trial for two weeks in order to give Donald
Trump's legal team time to prepare. This placed the start of the trial at a time after Mr.
Trump's term would have officially ended. The constitutionality of impeaching a former president was contested at the start of the trial, and the Senate voted that the trial was in fact constitutional.
After voting to acquit Mr. McConnell proceeded to proclaim that the reason for his vote was because Mr.
Trump was no longer in office and thus could not be impeached. This stance in effect allowed for the evidence brought forth by the prosecution to be completely disregarded regardless of the prior Senate decision that the trial was constitutional.
During
Trump's presidency Mitch barely said much about any of the president's conduct. However, during the trial's closing statements he issued scathing remarks about
Trump's actions all throughout his term. So to call someone Murky Mitch is in effect calling them a hypocrite.
