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applegrove

(118,870 posts)
Tue Apr 23, 2024, 08:11 PM Apr 23

McConnell Blames Carlson, Trump for Ukraine Aid Delay

McConnell Blames Carlson, Trump for Ukraine Aid Delay

April 23, 2024 at 5:02 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 105 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2024/04/23/mcconnell-blames-tucker-carlson-donald-trump-for-ukraine-delay/

"SNIP............

“Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday celebrated the impending passage of $60 billion in U.S. aid to Ukraine ahead of a final vote, while lamenting the fact that it took months to secure enough Republican support to land it,” NBC News reports.

Said McConnell: “The demonization of Ukraine began by Tucker Carlson, who in my opinion ended up where he should have been all along, which is interviewing Vladimir Putin. And so he had an enormous audience, which convinced a lot of rank and file Republicans that maybe this was a mistake.”

He added: “I think the former president had sort of mixed views… which requires you to deal with Democrats, and then a number of our members thought it wasn’t good enough. And then our nominee for president didn’t seem to want us to do anything at all. That took months to work our way through it.”

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applegrove

(118,870 posts)
5. Exactly. The egg on your face is not going to slip off.
Tue Apr 23, 2024, 08:29 PM
Apr 23

McConnel said nothing and let the MAGA gang go crazy in Congress. You get no credit for Ukraine having a chance, one more time, at freedom.

dchill

(38,588 posts)
3. And who failed to call for Trump's conviction...
Tue Apr 23, 2024, 08:22 PM
Apr 23

...in his TWO impeachment trials, Mosky? Can I call you Mosky, Mitch?

Cha

(297,911 posts)
4. Of course.. appreciate him putting the blame
Tue Apr 23, 2024, 08:27 PM
Apr 23

where it belons.. even though he was Moscow Mithch for a while and Screwed Over SCOTUS for Dems and Democracy.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,178 posts)
7. "And then our nominee for president didn't seem to want us to do anything at all."
Wed Apr 24, 2024, 03:31 PM
Apr 24

How about address this more Moscow Mitch?

Talk about the close relationship Donnie has with Vlad. Talk about how dangerous it would be to put him back in charge.

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