Despite representing a state President Trump won by 19 points in 2016, an exasperated Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., reportedly blamed "the fucking Russians" for his victory on election night.

This is according to a passage in Michael Isikoff and David Corn's new book, Russian Roulette, which claims:



Late on Election Night, when it seemed Trump was going to win, Senator Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat close to Clinton, walked past a reporter and muttered, ‘Can you believe this? The fucking Russians.'



If the anecdote is true, it's a little odd for a senator whose own state was so central to Trump's sweep of the heartland to have laid blame at the feet of external actors while returns were coming in. Trump nearly doubled Mitt Romney's Missouri margin of victory in 2012— McCaskill had a front row seat to the phenomenon that catapulted him from reality television stardom into the White House.

Was she not paying attention?

McCaskill, one of the Senate's most vulnerable Democratic incumbents, recently jabbed at Hillary Clinton for disparaging red-state voters.

"I have great respect for Missouri voters," she said last month after Clinton's controversial remarks to an Indian news outlet. "And there are a lot of reasons they voted for Donald Trump. Some of which I completely understand. I mean, frustration is a powerful motivator. And if you've played by the rules and worked hard all your life and you're further behind this year than you were 10 years ago no wonder you want something completely different."

Or maybe it was just "the fucking Russians."

h/t Washington Free Beacon