So the GOP wasn’t saying that Ukraine was a distraction from the fake-ass Durham scandal and a bunch of other nonsense?
This might have been a defensible position if Trump and other GOP leaders weren’t still openly praising Putin. It’s fucking embarrassing for you guys.
Trump Praises Putin, Leaving Republicans in a Bind
G.O.P. leaders, while condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, were silent on comments made by the former president. Some figures on the right amplified them.
He is “pretty smart,” Mr. Trump said on Wednesday at a Florida fund-raiser, assessing the impending invasion like a real estate deal. “He’s taken over a country for $2 worth of sanctions,” he said, “taking over a country — really a vast, vast location, a great piece of land with a lot of people — and just walking right in.”
Historians called the remarks unprecedented. “The idea that a former president would praise the man or leadership who American troops are even now traveling to confront and contain,” said Jeffrey Engel, a presidential historian at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, “is astounding.”
Yet Republican leaders, while condemning the invasion of Ukraine, stayed silent about the ex-president’s repeated praise this week for Mr. Putin, even as some Trump allies — from former administration figures to the Fox News host Tucker Carlson — amplified his Russian-friendly views to the party’s core.
If you really cared about these things, you’d stop trying to provide cover for GOP leadership, which is actively undermining US policy in this area. Grow some nuts for once and hold Republicans accountable for the things they said.
In the face of overwhelming evidence that you’re wrong, you could choose the right path, which is to fuck off.