http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/12/10/1609468/-McConnell-gave-Russia-the-green-light-refused-to-sign-on-to-protecting-election
"Why would a US Senator refuse to join in an agreement to secure an American election? Because McConnell had something to gain. Mitch McConnell followed exactly the same line as Donald Trump, proclaiming the evidence insufficient and claiming that even talking about the involvement of a foreign power that had broken into the email server of an American political party and distributed select pieces of that email for political purposes was “partisan.” What did McConnell get for toeing the Trump line? After the election, Trump chose McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao, as his nominee for transportation secretary. If Mitch McConnell was covering for Trump because he already had a deal in place, then the Trump campaign was not just aware of the issue, but recognized it as a problem that had to stay buried. Russia has acknowledged that all during this period, Russian agents were in contact with the Trump campaign. The Russian government maintained contacts with members of Donald J. Trump’s “immediate entourage” during the American presidential campaign, one of Russia’s top diplomats said Thursday. Trump may not just have been the beneficiary of the Russian involvement, he may well have played an active role."
