Pelosi, Schumer Joint Statement on Senator McConnell's Declaration of 'Case Closed'

[Grins]

30. I think that is a weak response. Mine....

The Majority Leader - a Republican - wants to shut down the investigation of the Russian government's involvement in our 2016 election by its intelligence agencies, its millions of dollars invested in social media, and its tens of millions invested in the Senator's favorite 3-letter lobbying group that once "awarded" him with its 'Defender of Freedom Award'.

That same 3-letter lobbying group is reported to have received and laundered tens-of-millions of dollars from the Russians while that lobby's leaders fawned over a 20-something Russian woman with ties to Russian security services and who has pleaded "Guilty" to serving as an unregistered for - Russia. This would be the same Russian government that, via a pro-Putin businessman, that gave the majority leader's PAC, $2,500,000, and that the Republican senior Senator from Florida also accepted $1,000,000 from a pro-Putin businessman, that the former Republican Governor of Wisconsin accepted another $1,000,000 from a pro-Putin businessman, that the junior Republican Senator from Texas accepted $2,500 from a pro-Putin businessman, that the senior and late-Senator from Arizona accepted money from a pro-Putin businessman, that the Republican senior senator from South Carolina and chairman of the Judiciary Committee accepted $800,000 from a pro-Putin businessman, that the Republican Governor of Ohio and presidential candidate accepted $250,000 from a pro-Putin businessman, that another $1,000,000 was given to Trump's Inaugural Committee from a pro-Putin businessman (who is, ironically, located directly across the street from Trump Tower on 5th Avenue in New York), and that the majority leader's very own Republican National Committee received a $20,400 contribution from a pro-Putin businessman.

You don't have to be a Jim Hoft, a Steve Doocy, a Brian Kilmeade, or even a Jacob Wohl to sense that the majority leader's desire to 'move on' to other Senate business is actually a feint, a move of self-preservation from his own personal associations with a hostile foreign government. The fires are now encircling the majority leader's hearth and home.