Opinion: My former party’s reaction to the Mueller report fills me with disgust
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell , center, in March. By Max Boot Max Boot Columnist covering national security Email Bio Follow Columnist April 22 at 2:34 PM Having declared the Republican Party to be morally bankrupt last month — after 90 percent of GOP lawmakers voted to approve President Trump’s unconstitutional state of emergency — I am not remotely surprised by the party’s dishonorable and dishonest reaction to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report.
Yet the president’s cultists reacted as if the special counsel had anointed him as the second coming of “Honest Abe” Lincoln. “TRUMP CLEAN,” blared the front page of Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post. “No crimes committed. Dem hoax destroyed.” Republican paladins agreed. “Democrats want to keep searching for imaginary evidence that supports their claims, but it is simply not there,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said. “I think [Trump] has every right to feel good about what we’ve heard today,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said.
Virtually the only elected Republican to express the appropriate level of outrage was Sen. Mitt Romney . “I am sickened at the extent and pervasiveness of dishonesty and misdirection by individuals in the highest office of the land, including the President,” he tweeted. “I am also appalled that, among other things, fellow citizens working in a campaign for president welcomed help from Russia.
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