Oh, he'll come out with something like, "the Senate has its hands full right now, but we will get to the president's allegations in due course, and we take them quite seriously, of course, (blah blah blah)." And then he'll run up to the White House at some unholy hour when no one is watching, and scream at Trump to either cut the crap or face a new impeachment with a Senate that will not be so cooperative next time.
McTurtle has been around long enough to realize that with Trump's ultimatums combined with his delusions, Trump is putting every Republican Senator in a seat that Charlie Cook has not listed as "Solid Republican" in true jeopardy. As Majority Leader, it is Moscow Mitch's job to get the heat and the spotlight off of his imperiled teammates. The last thing an incumbent Republican Senator facing re-election wants at this point is to be asked, on camera, if he agrees with Trump's allegations. If he/she says "yes," then he/she gets Trump's applause, but gets fried by the press and the Democratic challenger. If it's "no," then Trump trashes him/her in public, providing some free momentum for the Democratic challenger that way. An incumbent Republican Senator who is in the slightest danger of a real race this November will run and hide in abject terror at being asked in public if they agree or disagree with Trump's "Obamagate," because whatever they answer, it hurts them.
If there was ANYTHING to this, McTurtle would have run with it long before now. Since there is nothing, the last thing he wants is Trump yelling at him to run with it now. You see, his seat, too, is one of those incumbent seats that is no longer "solid Republican." He is probably not thrilled at the thought of Senator McGrath, D-KY, being on some committee investigating McConnellgate.
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