Repubs are finally getting the message. Now, will they act on it?
From CNN:
“Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker said the President "us look like a pushover’ and that Putin was probably eating caviar on the plane home. ‘I was very disappointed and saddened with the equivalency that he gave between them (the US intelligence agencies) and what Putin was saying,’ said Corker, a Tennessee Republican who is not seeking re-election.
“Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell . . . .released a statement through a spokesman, backing the US intelligence community’s assessment and saying ‘Russia is not our friend.’‘As the Leader has said many times, Russia is not our friend, and he agrees with the findings of the intelligence community regarding Russia’s efforts to interfere in our elections,’ McConnell spokesman Don Stewart said in that statement. ‘Those positions have not changed.’
“Trump’s comments that appeared to equivocate Putin’s denial of Russian election meddling and the US intelligence community’s assessment were commonly evoked in the steady stream of criticism. Republican Sen. Ben Sasse, a Republican from Nebraska, issued a blistering statement just minutes after the press conference wrapped.Sassy rebuked Trump’s statement that he held ‘both countries responsible’ for the deteriorated relationship between the United States and Russia." . . .
Repubs are finally getting the message. Now, will they act on it?
From CNN:
“Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker said the President "us look like a pushover’ and that Putin was probably eating caviar on the plane home. ‘I was very disappointed and saddened with the equivalency that he gave between them (the US intelligence agencies) and what Putin was saying,’ said Corker, a Tennessee Republican who is not seeking re-election.
“Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell . . . .released a statement through a spokesman, backing the US intelligence community’s assessment and saying ‘Russia is not our friend.’‘As the Leader has said many times, Russia is not our friend, and he agrees with the findings of the intelligence community regarding Russia’s efforts to interfere in our elections,’ McConnell spokesman Don Stewart said in that statement. ‘Those positions have not changed.’
“Trump’s comments that appeared to equivocate Putin’s denial of Russian election meddling and the US intelligence community’s assessment were commonly evoked in the steady stream of criticism. Republican Sen. Ben Sasse, a Republican from Nebraska, issued a blistering statement just minutes after the press conference wrapped.Sassy rebuked Trump’s statement that he held ‘both countries responsible’ for the deteriorated relationship between the United States and Russia." . . .
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