Perhaps Obama should have done it anyway, particularly with Comey releasing the information about Clinton's emails. But I grant you, that was a tough call to make.Joe Biden said Tuesday that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stopped the Obama administration from speaking out about Russian interference in the 2016 campaign by refusing to sign on to a bipartisan statement of condemnation.
That moment, the former Democratic vice president said, made him think “the die had been cast ... this was all about the political play.”
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Biden said he and former President Barack Obama worried that without a united front of bipartisanship, speaking out before the election would undermine the legitimacy of the election and American institutions in a way that would play into the Russians’ larger ambitions.
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"Would things have gotten better, or would it further look like we were trying to delegitimize the electoral process, because of our opponent?”
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He expressed regret, in hindsight, given the intelligence he says came in after Election Day. "Had we known what we knew three weeks later, we may have done something more,” Biden, a potential 2020 presidential candidate, said.
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"Our administration's interest in making sure the response was bipartisan wasn't for the sake of being bipartisan. It was necessary because we needed the buy-in from state and local election administrators (many of whom were Republican partisans and/or skeptical of federal government),” [one] official argued in an email. “Unfortunately, as is well documented, Senator McConnell was unwilling to help — only making matters worse.”
No, McConnell should be outfitted with an orange jumpsuit and frogmarched to prison with the rest of the GOP enablers and conspirators.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
UPDATE 3/5:
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