‘We Expected Nothing Less…’ Ashley Judd Responds To McConnell With Statement On MSNBC

Ashley Judd has not yet spoken publicly about the content of that secret tapes that Mother Jones obtained from at private Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) strategy meeting. But she did deliver a strongly-worded statement to MSNBC, part of which anchor Tamron Hall read on-air this afternoon.

In the tapes, McConnell and his team can be heard discussing how they planned to turn Judd’s “emotionally unbalanced” history of depression into a larger campaign issue had she chosen to run against the senator in the 2014 election. They can be heard laughing throughout the meeting about the various ways they would use her past statements against her.

In response, Judd wrote:

“This is yet another example of the politics of personal destruction that embody Mitch Mcconnell and are pervasive in Washington, D.C. We expected nothing less from Mitch McConnell and his camp than to take a personal struggle such as depression, which many Americans cope with on a daily basis and turn it into a laughing matter.”

Hall also read a portion of a statement from Mother Jones, noting that they are choosing not to comment on the FBI’s apparent investigation into how the organization obtained the audio from the private meeting. As of yet, Mother Jones has not released the name of their source for the material.

Watch video below, via MSNBC:

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