Congressman Cline has had nothing to say so far about Friday’s infamous White House meeting at which Donald Trump and JD Vance excoriated Ukraine’s President Zelensky (whose country was invaded by Putin’s Russia three years ago) for insufficient groveling, while slathering praise on the invader Putin.
But don’t expect Cline to defy Trump and Vance by offering principled support for Ukraine in its war against Putin’s brutal and murderous aggression.
Soon after the invasion, Cline issued a full-throated denunciation and even tried to raise campaign money based on the fact that he had been “sanctioned by Russia.”
As I wrote at the time:
What Cline didn’t mention is that the “several” were in fact 398— ranging from Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Republicans like Marjorie Talyor Greene.
Even North Carolina Republican Madison Cawthorn— who has called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a “thug” and the Ukrainian government “incredibly evil”– is on the sanctions list.
In fact the only reason some House members (such as Speaker Nancy Pelosi) are missing from the list is that Russia had previously sanctioned them.
Since then, as I’ve noted in several posts, Cline’s voting record in Congress has aligned a lot closer with Russia’s interests than with Ukraine’s.
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