Summary
Republican lawmakers who have condemned Putin hesitate to criticize Trump’s recent pro-Russia stance.
Trump falsely blamed Ukraine for the war, called President Zelenskyy a “dictator,” and demanded Ukraine surrender rare earth minerals in exchange for U.S. aid.
While some GOP officials reaffirmed support for Ukraine, they avoided directly challenging Trump. Meanwhile, Trump’s administration negotiated a Russia-Ukraine peace deal without initially including Ukraine.
Zelenskyy rejected Trump’s minerals demand, warning of dangerous precedents.
you mean… such Republican Luminaries™️ like Mitch McConnell? who refused to even hold hearings on Obama’s supreme court negotiations to SCOTUS? ensuring trump had more picks than necessary?
or Sen. Chuck Grassley, or Rep. Hal Rogers? both of whom bend the knee.
McConnell has done more to help trump get- and return- to office than any other person alive.
All three of them started their careers during the reagan era. You act like Trump just showed up and took over. he was a useful patsy to the republican agenda, but that’s about it. Trump is able to do all of this without much (or any) pushback from republicans not because they’re weak and powerless, but because, rather, this is exactly what they’ve been working for.
Edit: and lets not forget reagan’s “agenda”… limited government, tax cuts, strong national defense, and traditional social values… sound familiar?
No, he doesn’t. He means the generation of Republicans even older than them, who fought in WWII and were senior congressmen during the Reagan administration.
All of them served during Reagan. maybe not senior, but that’s just moving goal posts. and as someone else mentioned, Roger Stone.
Republican’s have been baking this cake for decades, and they don’t get to pretend like it’s all just Trump.
^ This.
Something, something…Roger Stone