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Republican attacks on Biden over Ukraine are hypocritical gaslighting
Right wing media and Republicans continue to gas light the public about Trump supporting Ukraine and standing up to Russia. It is almost as extreme as Russian media's depiction of their invasion as an effort to fight the Nazis.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/republican-attacks-biden-over-ukraine-are-hypocritical-gaslighting-n1285667
House Republicans gave President Joe Biden a failing grade over his recent call with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Because of Biden’s weakness, Russia is threatening to invade Ukraine any day,” the House GOP declared in a blog post on Wednesday.
That is really, really bold considering what Republicans were saying just two years ago. This is the same party that spent months defending then-President Donald Trump’s extortion of Ukraine in the face of overwhelming evidence that his schemes hurt Ukraine and benefited Russia. Now, with Russian troops massing on the border, they want me to believe that they suddenly care about keeping Ukraine safe. Honestly, the sheer cynical hypocrisy is enough to make me feel like I’m having a nervous breakdown.
I spent the entirety of the first impeachment saga covering it daily, so a quick recap for you: Trump, gorged on conspiracy theories and self-serving lies, was convinced that Ukraine and not Russia had interfered in the 2016 election. He then leaned on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to open investigations into both those conspiracies and into Biden and his son Hunter, who had business interests in Ukraine, ahead of the 2020 election. As leverage, he froze $391 million of congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine and denied Zelenskyy a White House meeting.
When he got caught thanks to a whistleblower, Trump immediately insisted that he’d done nothing wrong during a July call with Zelenskyy — and almost the entirety of the GOP backed him up. Throughout weeks of testimony saying otherwise, through the Government Accountability Office concluding that Trump’s hold on aid broke the law, through the acknowledgement from Trump’s own former national security adviser that there was a quid pro quo at work, Republicans held together. Not a single Republican in the House voted for either article of impeachment. Only one in the Senate, Mitt Romney of Utah, voted to convict Trump in his trial, and then on only one of the two counts.
That is really, really bold considering what Republicans were saying just two years ago. This is the same party that spent months defending then-President Donald Trump’s extortion of Ukraine in the face of overwhelming evidence that his schemes hurt Ukraine and benefited Russia. Now, with Russian troops massing on the border, they want me to believe that they suddenly care about keeping Ukraine safe. Honestly, the sheer cynical hypocrisy is enough to make me feel like I’m having a nervous breakdown.
I spent the entirety of the first impeachment saga covering it daily, so a quick recap for you: Trump, gorged on conspiracy theories and self-serving lies, was convinced that Ukraine and not Russia had interfered in the 2016 election. He then leaned on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to open investigations into both those conspiracies and into Biden and his son Hunter, who had business interests in Ukraine, ahead of the 2020 election. As leverage, he froze $391 million of congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine and denied Zelenskyy a White House meeting.
When he got caught thanks to a whistleblower, Trump immediately insisted that he’d done nothing wrong during a July call with Zelenskyy — and almost the entirety of the GOP backed him up. Throughout weeks of testimony saying otherwise, through the Government Accountability Office concluding that Trump’s hold on aid broke the law, through the acknowledgement from Trump’s own former national security adviser that there was a quid pro quo at work, Republicans held together. Not a single Republican in the House voted for either article of impeachment. Only one in the Senate, Mitt Romney of Utah, voted to convict Trump in his trial, and then on only one of the two counts.
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