Even though President Donald Trump has said he believes the entire Mueller report should be made available to the public, on Monday Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) refused to allow a resolution to come to the floor of the Senate.
McConnell’s rationale for not allowing the Senate resolution, according to The Hill, certainly has the stench of BS on it, with the majority leader commenting:
“The special counsel and the Justice Department ought to be allowed to finish their work in a professional manner. To date, the attorney general has followed through on his commitments to Congress. One of those commitments is that he intends to release as much information as possible.”
So much for transparency.
It didn’t take long for McConnell’s blatant obstruction to reverberate around Twitter, and many of those who commented were outraged by McConnell’s action:
Starting to seem like it’s really important to Mitch McConnell that nobody ever know what happened, for some reason. pic.twitter.com/sdo1hdBVZs
— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) March 25, 2019
So McConnell threatened Obama over alerting Americans to Russian attacks and now he’s blocking the Mueller report release. Between Mitch and Barr, this thing was fixed a long time ago. It’s why Trump never fired Mueller.
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) March 25, 2019
Mitch McConnell today: “It is deeply disturbing that the Obama administration was apparently insufficiently prepared to anticipate and counter these Russian threats.”
Mitch McConnell previously: Blocked Obama admin from making a bipartisan statement on Russian election meddling.
— Adam Best (@adamcbest) March 25, 2019
After CIA Director John Brennan told Mitch McConnell about Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, McConnell responded by saying he wouldn’t sign on to any statements condemning Russian interference — but he would condemn Brennan/the CIA & the Obama admin for coming forward. https://t.co/1FVHd1xoeO
— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) March 25, 2019
If Trump is innocent, why have Linsdey Graham and Mitch McConnell both blocked efforts to release the Mueller report? If Trump is innocent, why is Barr drawing his own conclusions ignoring Mueller’s inconclusive results?#ReleaseTheFullMuellerReport #ReleaseTheFullReportNOW
— Dr. DaShanne Stokes (@DaShanneStokes) March 25, 2019
I believe NOT ONE WORD from Barr, McConnell, Graham or any of their cohort.
The truth is NOT in what they SAY, it is in what they DO!
Their unwillingness to release the report SAYS EVERYTHING!
We are being railroaded, people.
That is all.
— Pam Keith (@PamKeithFL) March 25, 2019
Had to update my bucket list:
-shit on Antonin Scalia’s grave
-shit on Mitch McConnell’s grave— critical thinking is a cop (@UrsulaSee) March 25, 2019
And the fact that Mitch McConnell doesn’t want the full Mueller report released can really only mean one thing: Team Trump doesn’t think they can call it a victory anymore if we see all the evidence. https://t.co/kCjptACdpX
— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) March 25, 2019
And the fact that Mitch McConnell doesn’t want the full Mueller report released can really only mean one thing: Team Trump doesn’t think they can call it a victory anymore if we see all the evidence. https://t.co/kCjptACdpX
— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) March 25, 2019
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