Mitch McConnell threw a 30-minute hissy fit on the Senate floor after being called out for helping Russia hack elections
accept. At the same time, the senator from Kentucky doesn’t like when people accurately call him out for stonewalling any and all attempts to actually protect Democracy. It really gets him steamed up! And so, after thean op-ed denouncing McConnell for systematically preventing the U.S. “from defending ourselves,” and saying that he “is, arguably more than any other American, doing Russian President’s bidding,” well, Mitch had no choice but to throw a massive conniption on the Senate floor.
Defending his decision to block the latest election-security bill, McConnell lashed out at the media for suggesting, correctly, that his actions are helping Russia, accusing it of participating in “modern-day McCarthyism” to “smear” his record. “The outrage industrial complex doesn’t let a little thing like reality get in their way,” McConnell complained in a nearly 30-minute rant. “They saw the perfect opportunity to distort and tell lies and fuel the flames of partisan hatred, and so they did.
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