McConnell hints at criminal prosecution for Trump and says former president bears responsibility for Capitol breach

Moments after the Senate voted to acquit former President Donald Trump of the "incitement of insurrection" impeachment charge, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell asserted that Trump did bear responsibility for the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol.

"President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day. No question about it," McConnell said Saturday. "The people who stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instructions of their president, and having that belief was a foreseeable consequence of the growing crescendo of false statements, conspiracy theories, and reckless hyperbole, which the defeated president kept shouting into the largest megaphone on planet Earth."