The Covington Catholic High School students at the center of a media firestorm have been "tried, convicted and sentenced by the media" and "partisan observers," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on the Senate Floor Wednesday.
McConnell said, "Far-left activists and members of the national and state media isolated a very few seconds of video footage from any shred of context, and many decided it was time to attack and denigrate these young people."
"These kids, their school and their families were met with a deluge, a virtual deluge, of partisan vitriol and hatred from people who never met them and had no idea what had taken place."