Putin Denies Mitch McConnell Is Russian Asset: "He Has Never Been an Asset to Any Country"

By Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker

30 July 19

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ushing back against charges that Senator Mitch McConnell is a Russian asset, the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, said on Tuesday that McConnell �has never been an asset to any country.�

�You can scour the four corners of the globe, and you will not find a nation that would ever in a million years consider Mitch McConnell an asset,� Putin said.

The Russian President urged pundits who have called McConnell a Russian asset �to look up the word �asset� in the dictionary.�

�You will find that �asset� means a useful or valuable thing,� Putin said. �The only part of that definition that fits McConnell is �thing.� �

Pressing his case further, he said that it was debatable whether McConnell was even an asset to his home state of Kentucky. �Maybe compared to Rand Paul he is, but that�s setting the bar ludicrously low,� he said.

Concluding his remarks, Putin said that people who ask, �Who does Mitch McConnell work for?� are asking the wrong question. �The question should be �When has Mitch McConnell ever worked?� � he said.