Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell taking to the Senate floor Tuesday morning to declare "case closed" on the Mueller Trump-Russia investigation was finally enough for even Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer to call bullshit. "I have just listened to the majority leader engage in an astounding bit of whitewashing," he said. "It's sort of like Richard Nixon saying ‘Let's move on’ at the height of the investigation of his wrongdoing. Of course [McConnell] wants to move on. He wants to cover up."
That's after McConnell actually had the audacity to stand on the floor and attack President Obama and the Democrats, saying that Democrats were finally "awakening to the dangers of Russian aggression" after the 2016 election. He blasted Obama, saying, "Maybe stronger leadership would have left the Kremlin less emboldened. Maybe tampering with our democracy wouldn't have seemed so very tempting." McConnell is trolling at this point, when it's been public knowledge for years that he used his office to prevent the public from finding out about Russian election sabotage just months before the 2016 election.
Schumer couldn't take any more:
What I remember is that from the very beginning, the Republican leader has not taken the threat of Russia's election interference as seriously as he should. In the run-up to the 2016 election when the Obama administration sought to warn state election officials about foreign meddling and designate election systems as, quote, critical infrastructure, Leader McConnell reportedly delayed for weeks, watered down the letter from congressional leaders and pushed back against the designation.
Yeah, I would want to sweep this under the rug if I had done that. I wouldn't want to keep talking about it.
McConnell has been working hand-in-hand with Trump to cover up Russian sabotage since before the election, and it's about fucking time that it becomes an issue. McConnell has been getting away with sabotaging the entire government—all three branches of it—and has even allowed a foreign adversary to sabotage a presidential election.
Thank you, Senator Schumer, for saying that on the Senate floor. It's a start. Now keep saying it in front of every television camera available. And leave out that "reportedly" part—there's no question what part McConnell played in this.