I don’t really hear much from Vaxy Don, because it just makes me sad. I can’t help but laugh whenever I watch him, because he’s just so funny. This makes me feel terrible, remembering that he pushed the vax and is still refusing to do anything for the political prisoners who are still rotting in solitary confinement for supporting him.
I even saw that Roger Stone was on Infowars the other day calling Trump out for refusing to fundraise a defense and get these people out of the DC gulag.
I did catch his interview with Sean Hannity the other day, because Hannity comes on right after Tucker, and sometimes I don’t get up to turn the TV off (I’ve also been wanting to hear what Hannity is feeding people on Ukraine-Russia). Hannity kept asking Trump to say that Putin is metaphysically evil, and he wouldn’t say that. But he did say that the Ukraine was a genocide or a massacre or something. (All the way back at the beginning of the month, he called the Ukraine action “a Holocaust.”)
But that was the headline – that he wouldn’t say “evil.”
I got the impression that Trump was fully condemning Putin, but he just didn’t want to say “he’s evil” because that sounds so gay.
Russia’s war on Ukraine is testing former President Donald Trump’s sway with Republican officials. Most of them are treating him the way he’s treating Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin: seeking distance but refusing to condemn.
While Trump inched closer to criticizing Putin’s invasion of Ukraine Saturday night, he continued to portray the Russian leader in a positive light. “It happens to be a man that is just driven, he’s driven to put it together,” Trump said at a political rally in South Carolina.
That followed a Thursday Fox News interview in which host Sean Hannity tried — and failed — to get Trump to offer anything but praise for Putin.
The war in Ukraine has created a rare break between Trump and many Republican elites who fell into lockstep with him during his presidency but now see moral and political imperatives in calling Putin out as a villain. Yet there are hard limits to how far they will go in crossing Trump.
“It suggests a lack of political fear that they previously would have had,” former Florida Rep. David Jolly, who served in the House as a Republican but has since left the party, said. “Many will criticize Putin — not all — but they are not going to take the moment they have to turn around and criticize Donald Trump because they don’t need to. It would be an unforced error.”
When former Vice President Mike Pence said last week that there was “no room” in the GOP for “Putin apologists” — a thinly veiled swipe at Trump — he did so at a closed-door fundraiser. And he didn’t use his political patron’s name.
I don’t really even understand what this is.
I guess it is just reflexive action by the media to start talking about Donald Trump. And then some kind of Republican operation to draw a line between themselves and Trump by claiming he’s a Putinist shill.
But again – “Holocaust.”
Trump refers to Russia’s war on Ukraine as “a holocaust” pic.twitter.com/WTQtM9l2YZ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 3, 2022
He also said in a March 2 interview with Maria Bartolomoto that Russia was indiscriminately massacring people.