Mar 07, 2024
A leading Democrat likened Donald Trump to a “single-cell organism” in terms of his approach to Ukraine aid.
Speaking on the One Decision Podcast, Connecticut Representative Jim Himes, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said the former president has opposed sending further aid to Ukraine amid its war with Russia because Ukraine reminds him of his first impeachment.
“Donald Trump is a little bit of a single-celled organism: he responds to one stimulus and one stimulus only, which is, ‘Does this make me feel good or does it make me feel bad?’ And Ukraine makes him feel bad because he got impeached over Ukraine,” Himes said.
Newsweek reached out to a representative for Trump via email for comment.
Congress has been locked in a stalemate over a bipartisan foreign aid bill that would provide additional aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
Senate members passed the package last month, but House Speaker Mike Johnson has refused to take it to the floor for a vote.
Some Republicans are concerned with the level of spending in the bill and have called for changes to security at the U.S.-Mexico border in return. Trump has been vocal in his opposition to further aid.
Centrist Republicans, on the other hand, have pushed for a discharge petition to force a vote without Johnson’s consent.
What We Know
On the podcast co-hosted by Sir Richard Dearlove, former head of the British intelligence service MI6, and journalist Indira Lakshmanan, Himes said that the United States needs to take action in what he called a global competition between democracy and autocracy.
“If we walk away from Ukraine and Vladimir Putin‘s thesis is proved and President Xi of China realizes that the West doesn’t have any backbone, our kid’s world will be a complicated one, to say the least,” he said.
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“It’s no secret that we’re in a period of gridlock,” Republican Representative Brian Fitzpatrick, one of the politicians pushing for the bill to be passed, said at a press conference on Wednesday morning. “This is literally U.S. domestic security and world peace on the line here.”
What’s Next?
A discharge petition would need 218 signatures to put the bill on the floor. It is not yet clear if it would garner that many votes.
While the U.S. decides its next move regarding Ukraine, members of the European Union have provided additional military aid to the country.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-single-cell-organism-democrat-jim-himes-ukraine-aid-1876840
Is he getting more orange than ever?
Just what we need…more name calling. Let’s not discuss policy let’s get into the mud and just slug it out like children in a sandbox. That’s the solution. Geez never thought I could be so dumb and not think of slugging it out like a kid. And this ladies and gentlemen is the caliber of the idiots we voted into. office. We should be so proud.
I suppose that this guy’s emotions go the best of him. We also get frustrated by the irrational stubbornness to allow Ukraine get defeated by a massive war criminal. It goes against our nature. These “Republicans” simply have no integrity.
Unfortunately in DC name calling and getting into the mud like children has become the norm for both parties.
I truly hope I am wrong but unfortunately it appears neither party is going to do anything on Ukrainian aid until after the Presidential election. Both parties believe (rightly or wrongly) their positions are helping them politically with the electorate and are also popular with their bases.
Leftist democrats that want totally open borders are not going to make any real compromises on border security. If Johnson loses only four Republican Representatives, the Speakership will be in limbo once again. This would freeze any and all legislation including funding the government for weeks if not months until the new Speaker was elected. Therefore the handful of isolationist Republicans will continue to stop any Ukrainian funding from being considered on the floor of the House.
I have given up hope that there will be any real movement on either side. The ball is now solely in Europe’s court.
American politics has arrived at the lowest point in its history with the collective clowns in the Oval Office and Congress, but the bottom hasn’t been reached yet, so it seems.