Fox News' Bill Hemmer grilled Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) about President Donald Trump's position on the war between Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday. The post ‘You Have to Suck Up to Putin?’ Fox News’ Bill Hemmer Grills GOP Senator About Trump’s Concessions to Russia first appeared on Mediaite.
Fox News ’ Bill Hemmer crossed a conservative boundary Tuesday by asking Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) if it was necessary to “suck up to” Russian President Vladimir Putin to forge peace with Ukraine. (Watch the video below.)
On the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale attack on Ukraine, the United States voted with Russia in the United Nations General Assembly against a resolution calling for the withdrawal of Moscow’s troops from Ukraine.
This is what Republicans are doing now: going against all of their strongest convictions about America’s role in the world—about the threat of Russia, the threat of Putin—to bend the knee to Trump,” says Jen Psaki on Republicans like Marco Rubio,
There was a small Republican contingent in Congress that repeatedly sided with Russia’s wishes. Now, evidently, it’s Donald Trump’s turn.
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