“Shame on all those Republicans like Mitch McConnell who have a sock in their mouth,” DNC Chairman TomPerez says about McConnell dismissing President Trump's comments on accepting foreign dirt on opponents. 'That's mind-numbing.'
McConnell has frequently defended the President, but Thursday's comments were notable given the severity of the uproar over Trump's remarks, which put him at odds with national security professionals within his own administration and raised questions about whether he was inviting foreign adversaries to again meddle in US democracy.
I would hear them out.' Would you answer the question that way?""He gets picked at every day about every different aspect of it," McConnell replied,"but the fundamental point is they are trying to keep the 2016 election alive."Read MoreTrump told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos in an interview published Wednesday that if a foreign power were to offer dirt on an opponent in 2020, he could likely accept it and not report it to the FBI.
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