Jen Psaki Sums Up Mitch McConnell’s ‘Real Legacy’ With Scathing Description

Jen Psaki weighed in on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s resolution to go away his publish later this yr by describing the “real legacy” he leaves behind.

The MSNBC host, a former Biden White House press secretary, took a “bit of a deep dive” into McConnell’s “unwavering devotion to winning and winning at any cost” Sunday.

She began along with his help of marketing campaign finance reform within the Seventies.

″[He was] denouncing the most cancers of the corrupting affect of cash and politics, solely to do a whole 180 within the U.S. Senate, the place he turned instrumental in opening up our politics to the flood of particular curiosity darkish cash,” stated Psaki.

She additionally famous he as soon as was a defender of the Voting Rights Act, which he had described as a “landmark piece of legislation” in 2006.

“And yet, McConnell has blocked all attempts to rebuild the law after conservatives on the Supreme Court, of course, gutted portions in 2013,” Psaki stated.

“This all adds up” for the Kentucky Republican, Psaki stated, arguing that McConnell realized that opposing marketing campaign finance reform “would mean raising far more unrestricted money” that might assist him politically and that “suppressing the vote might help Republicans win elections.”

She later referred to him having “stonewalled” President Barack Obama’s appointment for Supreme Court justice in 2016 and seeing former President Donald Trump because the “means to an end” with regards to filling federal courts with conservatives.

Psaki described McConnell as leaving his publish in a “diminished” state. She added that there’s been a scarcity of motion on new Ukraine support “despite his insistence” and the shortcoming to move a bipartisan border invoice.

“And yet despite all that McConnell thinks about Trump, which we know, he’s already said that if he is the Republican nominee he will support him,” Psaki stated.

“And that’s the real legacy of Mitch McConnell: a cynic focused on power only to be swallowed by the monster that he enabled to obtain it.”