Opinion: Mitch McConnell tries to make Trump’s misconduct disappear
By Paul Waldman and Paul Waldman Opinion writer covering politics Email Bio Follow Greg Sargent Greg Sargent Opinion writer covering national politics Email Bio Follow May 7 at 4:46 PM Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is a master troll, whose limitless hypocrisy and bad faith are guaranteed to make his opponents want to tear their hair out. And now he has outdone himself:
“Remember, Russia set out to sow discord, to create chaos in American politics and undermine confidence in our democracy,” McConnell said. “But on that front, given the left’s total fixation on delegitimizing the president — the president Americans chose and shooting any messenger who tells them inconvenient truths, I’m afraid the Russians hardly needed to lift a finger.”
If Republicans actually believed what they say about Russia, they’d have no problem with further investigations. If it were true that nobody around Trump did anything wrong and neither did Trump himself, investigations would be dull and fruitless. Nothing would prove the Republicans’ point more than a bunch of Democrats trying and failing to find something the president did wrong.
That’s right: Russia’s comprehensive campaign to help Trump get elected was … President Barack Obama’s fault. That would be absurd even if you didn’t know McConnell’s particular history on this issue. But his words are even more appalling because no one did more to hinder reaction to Russia’s attack on our election system than McConnell himself.
And they made a case for a united, bipartisan front in response to what one official described as “the threat posed by unprecedented meddling by a foreign power in our election process.”
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