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.”