Trump’s new Russian narrative, blaming Obama for “not doing enough“, goes right back to McConnell & the Repubes, blocking O, telling him it would have been political to do so. Fox “News”, as always, acting like the official State media organ. Spin city.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...n-republicans/
... it has also been established by dogged reporting that leading congressional Republicans rebuffed top Obama officials who wanted them to show a united, bipartisan public front against that Russian sabotage. As The Post has reported, when those officials made that request of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), he refused, claiming (in The Post’s words) that “he would consider any effort by the White House to challenge the Russians publicly an act of partisan politics.”