Trump allies, from Tucker Carlson to John Kennedy, keep inadvertently defending Russia by writerknowles
President Trump’s long-running embrace of Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, has been taken up recently by some of his staunchest Republican supporters, who have publicly sided with Moscow over Ukraine, an American ally, in comments they subsequently disavowed or dismissed as jokes.
Kennedy’s doubts — of the unanimous judgment of U.S. intelligence agencies and the conclusions of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators and the grand jury that indicted Russian operatives for cyber-meddling in the 2016 election on behalf of Trump — came just days after Fiona Hill refuted that view.
Story continuesMueller’s investigation found copious evidence that Russian operatives tried to help the Republican ticket in 2016, although he did not establish direct collusion with the Trump campaign. Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., now the House minority leader, told a closed-door meeting of Republican House members in 2016 that “there’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump.” He was referring to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California, who was defeated for reelection in 2018.
It’s unclear how much stock Pompeo puts in Trump’s expressed view that Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in the 2016 election, but one person who is certainly glad to hear it being publicly discussed is Russian President Vladimir Putin. Democrats have regularly criticized Trump for what they see as his acquiescence to Moscow, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did during a contentious October meeting at which she called out the president’s decision to withdrawal troops from northern Syria. That decision, analysts said, would benefit Moscow, and Pelosi stood during the meeting and declared that, with Trump, “all roads lead to Putin,” before leaving the meeting.
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