Hillary Clinton Pummels Trump for Giving Putin a Pass in Public Eye
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In an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Friday Hillary Clinton lay the blame for Russia’s war in Ukraine on Donald Trump.
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By giving him “aid and comfort” she allowed him a pass and cleaned his image up in the public eye. The former secretary of state then called on “what’s left of the Republican party” to stand up against those who are showing support for “enemy of freedom and democracy” in Putin.
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She warned that Mr Trump “plays right into the ambitions” of both Mr Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping “to undermine democracy” and “literally divide and conquer the West without ever invading us.”
“Maybe this terrible aggression by Putin will stiffen the spines of a lot of Republicans in office who understand you cannot continue to give Trump and his enablers a blank check because they will lead us to a very bad place.” —@hillaryclinton pic.twitter.com/mYzohODGAa
— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) February 25, 2022
“We have to also make sure that within our own country we are calling out those people who are giving aid and comfort to Vladimir Putin, who are talking about what a genius he is, what a smart move it is, who are unfortunately being broadcast by Russian media, not only inside Russia, but in Europe to demonstrate the division within our own country,” she said.
We need a strong democracy in the US to win the global fight against autocracy.
And the hard truth is that if Republicans won’t stand up to Trump, they can’t stand up to Putin or Xi.
Read my new piece in @TheAtlantic on democracy’s state of emergency: https://t.co/K0E0TY9rUt
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) February 25, 2022
“The national security emergency for democracy starts here at home where we have to be much more united in the face of what is a very real threat from Putin and his imperialistic ambitions.”
This was a response to Trump calling Putin a “genius” and “a guy who’s very savvy” that knows “very, very well”.
On Tuesday – just over 24 hours before Russia first invaded and as Western leaders were implementing a first raft of sanctions to try to deter an attack – Mr Trump heaped praise on the Russian president. “I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, ‘This is genius,’” he said when Mr Putin recognized the two Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states in a move to send Russian troops over Ukraine’s border.
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“Putin declares a big portion of Ukraine – Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful.”
Mr Trump, who was impeached for withholding military aid from Ukraine, has refused to condemn the Russian president. On Thursday, he claimed that the “deadly Ukraine situation would never have happened” if he was still in office.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joins Morning Joe to discuss the Republican party’s softness towards Russian President Vladimir Putin, and how “what’s left of the Republican party” must stand up to those giving “aid and comfort” to leaders like Putin.
