Former Vice President Mike Pence will tell fellow Republicans that their party can’t stand the Russian president’s “apologists” Vladimir Putin against the background of his brutal war against Ukraine.
The comments he will make at a Republican party event for major donors in New Orleans come after Trump called Putin a “genius” after Russia launched an attack on its neighbor after spending much of his term calling Putin. clever.
“Where would the Russian tanks be today if they did? NATO has not expanded the boundaries of freedom? There is no place in this party for Putin’s apologists. There is only room for champions of freedom, “Pence planned to say, according to an excerpt from New York Times.
The strike appears to have been another calibrated effort to distance itself from Trump, who spent much of his term in defamation of Russia’s investigation and sparked outrage when he appeared to accept Putin’s denial of meddling in the election during their Helsinki summit. .
But while navigating opposing currents in party politics, Pence is also blowing up President Biden for Ukraine.
“It is no coincidence that Russia waited until 2022 to invade Ukraine,” he plans to say. “Weakness awakens evil, and the scale of the evil that is spreading in Ukraine speaks volumes about this president.”
This announcement is in line with Trump’s own belief that the invasion would never have happened on watch because of his own toughness and unpredictability.
Trump himself said this in a conversation with golfer John Daly.
“Everyone says he’s a nuclear force, as if they’re afraid of him,” Trump said in a recording of a telephone conversation with the Daily. “You know, he was my friend.” I got along great with him. I say, Vladimir, if you do, we will hit Moscow. We will hit Moscow. And he believes me as 5%, 10% is all you need, “Trump can be heard saying.
“He never did it in my day, John, you know.” Everyone was talking about “why hasn’t he done this in the last four years?” Because he knew he couldn’t.
Former Vice President Mike Pence attacks Vladimir Putin’s “apologists” a month after saying he had no “right” to cancel the election
Last week, Trump again confirmed Putin’s cunning, although he described the invasion as a bad thing.
“I came in yesterday and there was a TV screen and I said, ‘This is ingenious.’ Putin declares a large part of Ukraine – from Ukraine. “Putin declares him independent,” Trump told conservative radio hosts Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. “Oh, that’s wonderful,” he added.
On Wednesday, Trump doubled in recorded comments about fundraising in Mar-a-Lago. “They say, ‘Trump said Putin was smart.’ I mean, he’s taking over the country in exchange for two-dollar sanctions. I would say it’s pretty smart. “It’s taking over a country – a really huge, vast location, a great piece of land with a lot of people, and it’s just going straight in,” Trump said.
Trump’s repeated comments that Putin is smart came as President Joe Biden won applause from Republicans and Democrats for the part of his speech on the state of the union in which he promised to unite allies against Russia’s invasion of the neighbor.
Pence’s speech came exactly a month after his sudden shot at Trump in another speech.
“There is no place for Putin’s apologists in this party. There is only room for champions of freedom, “Pence said, days after Trump called Putin a” genius “at the start of his brutal invasion of Ukraine. But Pence also said “it’s no coincidence that Russia waited until 2022 to invade Ukraine,” accusing President Biden of “weakness.”
In a speech, Pence plans to condemn Russian President Vladimir Putin after his attack on Ukraine
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has become a global hero because of his resistance to the invasion. Russia’s move has returned Trump’s infamous 2019 call to Zelensky, where he called for the “benefits” of a Bidens investigation as Zelensky pleads for missiles.
Russia’s brutal invasion has drawn condemnation from members of both parties in the United States
He told the conservative federalist society: “There are people in our party who believe that as chairman of the joint session of Congress I had a unilateral right to reject the votes of the electoral colleges. And this week, I heard President Trump say I have the right to “change the election.” President Trump is wrong … I had no right to cancel the election.
Pence plans to return to this topic in a speech in New Orleans. “We can’t win by fighting yesterday’s battles or overcoming the past,” he plans to say, according to another excerpt from Washington Post.
Pence’s latest blow came when Trump was at war with former Attorney General Bill Barr, who in his new book recounts the December 2020 scene, revealing Trump’s allegations of fraud and describing the scene in which he proposed his resignation. “Boom!” He told NBC, describing how Trump slapped his hand on his desk and said, “Accepted.”
Trump also cried over his approved candidates, who are running in the Texas primary.
In a statement this week, Trump accused RINO, Warmongers and Fake News of lying and trying to misrepresent my remarks to Putin because they know that this terrible war against Ukraine would never have happened under my supervision. .