Apr 14, 2024
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On Friday, former Representative Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican, rebuked Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene‘s rant defending Russian President Vladimir Putin.
It has been a little over two years since Putin launched a full-scale invasion into Ukraine in February 2022. As the conflict rages on, support for the war-torn country is dwindling among Republican U.S. lawmakers. Greene, a Georgia Republican, has been a vocal critic of additional U.S. aid being sent to the Eastern European nation.
Meanwhile, the Senate has passed a $95 billion foreign aid package, including $61 billion for Ukraine. The House has yet to vote on any legislation for additional funding to Kyiv, but House GOP Leader Steve Scalise from Louisiana told reporters on Thursday that House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, had been talking with the White House about a funding package that includes several GOP demands.
On Friday, journalist Aaron Rupar shared a clip on X, formerly Twitter, of Greene on right-wing host Steve Bannon‘s show War Room ranting about members of Congress who support additional aid to Ukraine.
“This whole thing is the most repulsive, disgusting thing happening and the American people are the ones writing the check,” the congresswoman said. “And I absolutely hate everybody here that is doing this. I mean, I seriously hate them for doing this to the American people and paying for the murder and slaughter of people in Ukraine.”
Greene continued: “Vladimir Putin has not said he wants to go march across Europe and take Europe, and the reality is Ukraine is not even a NATO member nation. But if you want to know something [U.S. Department of Defense Secretary] Lloyd Austin and the others here more than anything want to send your uncles, your cousins and your sons and daughters to the frontlines in Ukraine because that is the only country that for some weird, sick and evil reason that they care about.”
Cheney responded to the video, writing on X: “Once again Moscow Marge is busy deploying her Kremlin talking points. Is she a useful idiot or is she intentionally spreading Putin’s lies? Either way it’s pathetic and unAmerican.”
Newsweek reached out to Greene’s office via email for comment.
Once again Moscow Marge is busy deploying her Kremlin talking points. Is she a useful idiot or is she intentionally spreading Putin’s lies? Either way it’s pathetic and unAmerican.
— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) April 12, 2024
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Bannon told Newsweek via telephone on Friday when asked about additional Ukraine funding, “This is the globalist elites prolonging the agony of Ukrainian people.”
He said that if Ukraine gets to the negotiating table with Russia now, “Putin’s gonna stop. If you don’t get to the negotiating table, the Ukrainian army is going to collapse.”
Meanwhile, Joel Rubin, a former deputy assistant secretary of state for House Affairs during the Obama administration, told Newsweek via text message on Saturday: “The Russians have always wanted total control of Ukraine and nothing has ever stopped that but the collapse of the Soviet Union and Ukraine’s own strong self defense. Taking away American support for Ukraine’s self-defense is the best way to guarantee a Russian military takeover of Ukraine, not peace in our time.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also warned of a future without peace in a video meeting of the Ukrainian fundraising group UNITED24 on Sunday.
“It’s important to specifically address the [U.S.] Congress: if the Congress doesn’t help Ukraine, Ukraine will lose the war,” he said. “If Ukraine loses this war, other countries will be attacked. This is a fact.”
However, Putin has said that Moscow has “no interest” in fighting with members of NATO, despite fears that the Russian leader would invade the Baltic states or Poland next.
Cheney has criticized Greene’s stance on Russia and Ukraine on several occasions. In November 2022, Cheney condemned her for saying that “not another penny will go to Ukraine” while speaking at a rally for former President Donald Trump in Sioux City, Iowa.
Cheney wrote in an X post at the time: “This is exactly what Putin wants. If we’d had Republicans like this in the 1980s, we would have lost the Cold War.”
“There are two things that are in the past,” Greene responded at the time. “1. You and your Daddy’s Republican Party that sent our military to fight foreign wars on the backs of American tax dollars and didn’t win a damn thing. 2. You.”
Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, who served under former President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009, served Wyoming’s at-large district from 2017 to 2023.
She was House Republicans’ third-ranked leader until she emerged as a vocal critic of Trump for his actions surrounding the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Cheney eventually lost her position as chair of the House Republican Conference and then lost the 2022 primary election in Wyoming to Trump-endorsed Harriet Hageman.
MTG is a traitor and should not be a member of our government. Instead, she should be in prison … or on the street, doing oral favors to the homeless for a few bucks.
Why you hate homeless people so much? 😁
I don’t hate them. I think they would enjoy a good blowjob. Never mind that they haven’t showered in months. That makes it all the more interesting for that skank.
It’s too bad that some one with some credibility did not take MTG down. Cheney squandered any credibility she might have had taking part in the fake J6 investigation. She lost her effort for re-election as a direct result.
She showed that she loved her country more than her party. I disagree with her politics, but she showed a lot of integrity – risking her career to do the right thing.
If you review the findings of the bipartisan January 6th Select Committee, there’s not a single witness involved that’s a Democrat. They’re all Trump’s handpicked people. His lawyers. His employees. Their communications. Photos. Everything. It was not a “fake” investigation.
Sorry Larry that was a kangaroo court. Im no fan of Trump but perhaps you should ask not what was presented but more importantly what was not presented. It was a sick display of pure political power, nothing else.
Sure. Cheney isn’t the cream of the crop in US politics, but when she’s right about the MTG cunt, she’s right.
It took a once powerful woman; pressured out by the Trumpers and now on the fringes, to make this rather mild rebuke of “Moscow Marge”, who simply has to be the most vile creature ever to achieve elected office in the GOP.
MTG is dripping with the type of pure evil and hatred that is matched only by nazi skanks like Simonyan and Zakharova.
How can the GOP tolerate the existence of Greene; a person with the morals of a child-murderer.
In fact she and her ilk ARE defacto child-murderers.
They tolerate the skank because they are also skanks and scum of the earth. Like attracts like.
Matryoshka Taylor Greene is nothing more than a Politburo secretary who sits on Capitol Hill. Everything she says is absolute disgrace, Soviet poison. The great republican figures of times gone by must turn in their graves every time she opens her mouth and pours her manure on Ukraine and the republican spirit.
She is the porcine counterpart of politics. She rolls around in the putrid sludge spread by Moscow a little more every day.
So much Ukrainian blood on his hands!
She’s so obvious evil and pro-russian, McCarthy would have her siting in the gas chamber already. I would pay to watch.
Matriochka Taylor Greene: “Putin has not said he wants to go march across Europe and take Europe”
The real guidelines of Moscow propaganda: “We are trying to change the future of Europe, which means 200-250 million dead and maimed Europeans. That’s the price of nuclear war”.
2 sentences from these propagandists must be underlined in red because they directly express Russia’s imperialist thinking and its desire to vassalize Ukraine but also the rest of Europe:
“All our attempts to turn the Europeans brains on are unsuccessful…
…European citizen must understand that they can die too… Because the last 60 years the European citizen has lived in a complete sense of immorality”
Some people get dropped on their heads when they get born. MTG got dropped three times because the doctor was drunk as skunk when he pulled her out of her drunk mother’s hole.