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You’ll regret this, and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think. – Moscow Mitch (Reptile -KY)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MSNBC\u2019s Joe Scarborough went on an extended rant against \u201cMoscow Mitch\u201d McConnell for repeatedly blocking measures that would protect American democracy from Russian attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Senate majority leader blocked two election security bills twice this week, despite warnings from U.S. officials and former special counsel Robert Mueller that the Kremlin was actively engaged in efforts to interfere with the 2020 election \u2014 and McConnell prevented the Obama administration from warning Americans about Russian meddling in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRobert Mueller testified that not only did Russia try to interfere with our 2016 election and not only did Donald Trump\u2019s \u2014 all of his intelligence community and Kirstjen Nielsen, when she was at Homeland Security, said Russia undermined American democracy in 2016,\u201d Scarborough said. \u201cWe remember back then the warnings came, but \u2018Moscow Mitch,\u2019 that being Mitch McConnell, of Moscow, Kentucky, actually blocked that and said he threatened the people that were going to try to get that information out to warn Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite all those clear warnings, the \u201cMorning Joe\u201d host said, McConnell agrees with President Donald Trump that Russian election interference is just a \u201choax.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018Moscow Mitch\u2019 says it\u2019s a hoax,\u201d Scarborough said. \u201cYou have his own Intelligence Committee in the Senate led by Republican Richard Burr saying that Russia tried to infiltrate all 50 states back in 2016 and are going to try it again. \u2018Moscow Mitch\u2019 calls it a hoax. You have the Republican Trump appointed FBI director saying that the Russians infiltrated America\u2019s democracy and are going to try again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou have the head, the director of national intelligence saying that the Russians tried to infiltrate our election system, tried to subvert American democracy,\u201d Scarborough continued, \u201cthey\u2019re going to try it again. \u2018Moscow Mitch\u2019 said it\u2019s a hoax. You have Trump\u2019s appointed director of the CIA saying that the Russians are trying to undermine American democracy, that the Russians tried in \u201916, will try again. \u2018Moscow Mitch\u2019 calls it a hoax.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou have military intel people, the military intel community, knowing because they were fighting the Russians in 2015-2016 and are still fighting them every day to stop them from continuing to infiltrate American democracy,\u201d Scarborough said. \u2018Moscow Mitch\u2019 says it\u2019s a hoax.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scarborough suggested the fix was in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI understand that there\u2019s an oligarch that I have read is going to be setting up a big aluminum plant in \u2018Moscow Mitch\u2019s\u2019 home state,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t know if that\u2019s it, but how can \u2018Moscow Mitch\u2019 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHow can \u2018Moscow Mitch\u2019 keep denying that Vladimir Putin continues to try to subvert American democracy?\u201d Scarborough added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fox News host Shepard Smith on Monday criticized Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for blocking election security bills because they were sponsored by Democrats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMitch McConnell is on the floor of the Senate defending himself,\u201d Smith explained during his Monday broadcast, \u201cagainst what he just called modern-day McCarthyism after some pundits described him as un-American and a Russian asset. Some have been calling him Moscow Mitch.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLast week, Robert Mueller testified \u2014 and just as his report said \u2014 the Russians interfered in an attempt to get Donald Trump elected president, everyone is aware of it,\u201d Smith continued. \u201cRight now he believes it\u2019s one of the greatest threats to our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Fox News host said that McConnell had blocked two stand-alone election security bills that were brought up a day after Mueller testified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTwo stand-alone bills were brought up to protect against Russian interference in the 2020 election and Mitch McConnell blocked them,\u201d Smith stated. \u201cThe day after he said it\u2019s underway, he stopped a bill that\u2019s goal was to protect the United States from the Russian invasion into our election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After cutting off a clip of McConnell defending himself, Smith warned that Russian cyber influence is \u201chappening again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey attacked our election,\u201d the host remarked. \u201cThere\u2019s not been one stand-alone bill in [McConnell\u2019s] chamber, the chamber which he leads to try to stop it. There have not been congressional hearings to bring the nation together around the common cause. And that is the Russians are attacking us and we must make it stop.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDemocracy is at stake,\u201d Smith concluded. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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