Minutes after voting “not guilty” in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the former president is clearly to blame for the deadly Capitol riot.”There’s no question” that Trump “is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day,” McConnell said just after the Senate acquitted Trump of inciting the attack. “No question about it.”But “the question is moot,” McConnell said, because as a former president, “Trump is constitutionally not eligible for conviction.””After intense reflection, I believe the best constitutional reading shows that Article 2 Section 4 exhausts the set of persons who …
