A Republican team is taking to the airwaves of Fox Information to remind the right-wing community’s audience that simply ultimate week, Donald Trump liked Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plan to assault Ukraine.
A brand new advert from the Republican Responsibility Mission replays Trump’s reward of Putin as “genius” and “savvy,” then juxtaposes the previous president’s phrases towards pictures of the devastation in Ukraine:
“Vladimir Putin is an enemy of the US and an enemy of democracy,” Sarah Longwell, the gang’s government director, stated in a information liberate. “It’s unconscionable {that a} former U.S. president would name a tyrant like Putin ‘good’ as he assaults blameless other folks.”
The spot will run all over Tucker Carlson’s display subsequent week. Carlson, like Trump, has additionally many times defended and praised Putin, and ― additionally like Trump ― is now making an attempt to go into reverse.
The Republican Responsibility Mission stated every other right-wing community, Newsmax, refused to air the advert.