Why is Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, a Nevada man who claims to be a woman, helping lead Ukraine’s English-speaking propaganda push? That’s something that Sen. J.D. Vance is seeking to find out after the “transgender” spokesperson’s latest wild rant went viral.
Having seen this organically at first (i.e. not via another news article), I thought it was a parody. At best, I figured this was some overzealous individual who doesn’t realize they are likely doing more to alienate people from Ukraine’s cause than to draw them in. But nope, according to multiple reports, Ashton-Cirillo is actually the spokesperson for the nation’s Territorial Defense Force.
Sen. J.D. Vance is now wanting answers.
“In recent days, a video has circulated of an individual who claims to be an English-speaking spokesperson for the Ukrainian military. In the video, this individual, Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, looks directly into the camera and threatens physical violence to anyone who circulates ‘Russian propaganda’,” he wrote in a letter to Sec. Blinken, Sec Austin, and Director Haines.
Vance goes on to ask whether Ashton-Cirillo has any connections to U.S. intelligence, something that has been rumored for a while. The senator also noted that the death threats against “propagandists” made by the TDF spokesperson would include many Americans who have questioned U.S. involvement in the war.
R&I ~ MJM
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