Dana Milbank, a columnist for the Washington Post, said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell “is a Russian asset” in an opinion piece.
“This doesn’t mean he’s a spy, but neither is it a flip accusation,” Milbank said in the Friday column. “Russia attacked our country in 2016. It is attacking us today. Its attacks will intensify in 2020. Yet each time we try to raise our defenses to repel the attack, McConnell, the Senate majority leader, blocks us from defending ourselves.”
“Let’s call this what it is: unpatriotic. The Kentucky Republican is, arguably more than any other American, doing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s bidding,” the 51-year-old writer said.
Milbank’s criticism follows McConnell blocking a series of bills last week that proponents said would help promote election security.
McConnell’s team responded to the critics in a series of tweets.
“The Democrats’ Russian conspiracy theories against President Trump hit a dead end during the Mueller hearing. No collusion. Case closed. So now, like a failed doomsday cult that predicted the end of the world, the liberal grifters need a fresh target: Mitch,” the Kentucky Republican’s campaign account tweeted on Friday.
“It started with MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough calling me #MoscowMitch. Then the Resistance piled on. Soon it was trending across the country on Twitter. And while it’s fun to laugh it off, we can’t. Because behind their insane Russian conspiracy theories are literally MILLIONS OF DOLLARS from the left-wing activists they animate.”
It started with MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough calling me #MoscowMitch. Then the Resistance piled on. Soon it was trending across the country on Twitter.
— Team Mitch (@Team_Mitch) July 27, 2019
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— Team Mitch (@Team_Mitch) July 27, 2019
