Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA) is asking why Donald Trump bends at the knee of Russia. “In office, Donald Trump bent the knee in front of Vladimir Putin. Out of office, Trump continues to bend the knee before Putin. Why?”
Lieu, a veteran who sits on the House Judiciary, Foreign Affairs, and Science, Space, and Technology Committees, wrote his remarks over a screen grab of Trump’s January comments in which he repeated his feelings of trusting Russia over U.S. intelligence:
“Remember in Helsinki when a 3rd rate reporter asked me, essentially, who I trusted more, President Putin of Russia, or our ‘Intelligence’ lowlifes,” Trump wrote.
“My instinct at the time was that we had really bad people… Now add McGonigal & other slime to the list. Who would you choose, Putin or these Misfits?”
This is sadly still relevant, as not only are House Republicans trying to pave an easy path for Russia to interfere in the 2024 elections, but Trump is still standing with Russia in their war of aggression against Ukraine.
Trump called for an end to U.S. support for Ukraine, claiming – as Russian propaganda does – that by supporting Ukraine against Putin’s alarming expansionist hostilities, we are pushing toward World War III.
This is also an interesting appeasement policy frame for the current situation, because it inadvertently compares Putin to Hitler and recalls then British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain declaring “Peace for our time” after the 1938 Munich Agreement appeasement policy allowed Nazi Germany to take parts of Czechoslovakia, as Britain and France refused to help the Czechs resist.
We saw what happened when those countries gave in to expansionist Hitler for the sake of “peace,” as six months later, Hitler spit on the agreement and ordered his armies to march on into Prague. One year later, the Guardian recalls, Britain and France were at war with Germany.
Ted Lieu Demands To Know Why Trump Continues To Bend At The Knee Of Russia (politicususa.com)