“Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough berated Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Friday morning for his efforts to block election security legislation in the Senate this week, just hours after the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee released a report outlining Russia’s cyber attacks on states in 2016.
“How can ‘Moscow Mitch’ so willingly turn a blind eye not only this year to what his Republican chairman of the Intel Committee is saying, to what Robert Mueller is saying what, the FBI director is saying, what the DNI is saying, to what the CIA is saying, to what the United States military intel community is saying. How can ‘Moscow Mitch’ keep denying that Vladimir Putin continues to try to subvert American democracy?” Scarborough said, after suggesting that perhaps McConnell had a conflict of interest related to Russian investment in his home state.
“Seriously, he is — he is aiding and abetting Vladimir Putin’s ongoing attempts to subvert American democracy, according to the Republican FBI, CIA, DNI, Intel Committee, all Republicans are all saying Russia is subverting American democracy and ‘Moscow Mitch’ won’t let the Senate take a vote on it. That is un-American,” Scarborough yelled.
McConnell blocked a vote on bills meant to beef up election security ahead of 2020, arguing the bills were too partisan for Republicans to support.
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I think it’s now time to accept the obvious. Republicans have known since 2016 that Putin won them not only the Presidency but the House and Senate too (and by extension the Supreme Court) and they know that they will need that help again in 2020. Occam’s razor–someone give me a less complicated explanation.
I like the moniker. Good one, Joe.
The swamp king (turtle) doesn’t need any lip service from the likes of scarborough.
I’m just gonna say that Scarborough didn’t invent the nickname Moscow Mitch. If he wasn’t so hostile to DailyKos he would have at least credited a bunch of writers there that have used that epithet for quite some time. But nooooo…He hates Markos Moulitsas and way back banned him from MSNBC and his show. Markos recently did show up on one of MSNBC’s shows however, so the ban might be over.
Also, Tammy Duckworth has used the moniker for Mitch for quite some time too.