'We got the Mueller report, the only objective evaluation that will be conducted. ... He gets picked at every day over every different aspect of it,' McConnell said.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to condemn President Donald Trump for saying he would hear out a foreign power that came to him with dirt on an opponent. Instead, McConnell blamed Democrats for being unable to move beyond the report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
"They just can't let it go, Laura," McConnell said Thursday night while speaking with Fox News' Laura."I said weeks ago, case closed. We got the Mueller report, the only objective evaluation that will be conducted.... He gets picked at every day over every different aspect of it."McConnell criticized the Democratic response to the Mueller report, which has led to intensified oversight and Congressional subpoenas.
McConnell has previously claimed that Democrats are"consumed by unhinged partisanship" in continuing to focus attention on the Mueller report. While the senator's claims echoed Trump's own statements that he is being subjected to"presidential harassment," a number of Republicans rebuked the president this week for his remarks about accepting information from a foreign
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