[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 128 (Monday, July 29, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S5121]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             MUELLER REPORT

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I welcome all Members back to the 
Senate for a busy week, but first there is something I need to address.
  Over the last several days, I was called unpatriotic, ``un-
American,'' and essentially treasonous by a couple of leftwing pundits 
on the basis of bold-faced lies. I was accused of ``aiding and 
abetting'' the very man I have singled out as an adversary and opposed 
for nearly 20 years: Vladimir Putin. This was less than 24 hours after 
the outraged industrial complex was disappointed yet again by Special 
Counsel Mueller.
  Partisan Democrats and their media allies were crushed a few months 
ago, when Mueller's report cleared the President of conspiring with 
Russia during the 2016 campaign. Now their frantic hyping of the 
special counsel's congressional testimony has fallen flat once again, 
but the conspiracy theories and reckless accusations had to continue. 
Too many people had invested too much time in the hysterical echo 
chamber to simply wind it down and join the rest of us in the real 
world.

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