Defending Donald Trump or deflecting his statements, some top G.O.P. officials reflected the trajectory of a party that the former president has largely bent to his will.
  • @[email protected]English
    50•9 months ago

    It’s super fuckin weird to watch the last vestiges of the GOP’s spine liquefy in real time. And like… of all the topics they could have picked to bootlick on… they picked something that would be antithetical to any American - and particularly, any Republican - as recently as a decade ago.

    • Optional
      8•9 months ago

      Yeah like for the last fifty years they were . . . just kidding? I guess? It’s fucking pathetic.

  • @rickdg
    30•9 months ago

    Orange man needs an orange suit.

  • Atelopus-zeteki
    28•9 months ago

    Dangerous, stupidly dangerous. And at a time when we really need to be focusing on global climate change, if we’re to survive into the next century, or even next couple decades. smh.

  • Flying Squid
    25•9 months ago

    Lindsay’s good buddy John McCain would just be embarrassed for him now.

    I had no love for McCain, but he wouldn’t have kissed Trump’s ass over comments like this.

    • flicker
      3•9 months ago

      I recently reminded a veteran both of what McCain went through, and how unacceptable the “soldiers who didn’t get caught” BS was. And how insane it was to me, as it is now, that more Republicans didn’t turn on him in that very instant.

      I’m not a Republican. I wouldn’t have voted for McCain. But he was a hero for what he did and the absolute lack of respect, the gleeful mockery, still boils my blood.

        • flicker
          1•9 months ago

          He remembered that happening, and told me he couldn’t imagine voting for Trump, which is fantastic news.

  • @thisorthatorwhatever
    15•9 months ago

    Businesses have already achieve what they wanted after the fall of the USSR, to establish themselves in Russia. They don’t care about human rights. War is a good money maker.

  • AutoTL;DRBEnglish
    3•9 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    After Donald J. Trump suggested he had threatened to encourage Russia to attack “delinquent” NATO allies, the response among many Republican officials has struck three themes — expressions of support, gaze aversion or even cheerful indifference.

    Mr. Trump, the party’s likely presidential nominee, had claimed at a Saturday rally in South Carolina that he once threatened a NATO government to meet its financial commitments — or else he would encourage Russia to “do whatever the hell they want” to that country.

    And where Mr. Trump might land on a commitment to Ukraine has, for the international community and foreign-policy experts, become something of a stand-in for how he will approach NATO, America’s most important military alliance, in any potential second term.

    As a wingman of the late Republican hawk and war hero Senator John McCain of Arizona, Mr. Graham traveled the country warning anyone who would listen about the dangers of Mr. Trump.

    “NATO countries that don’t spend enough on defense, like Germany, are already encouraging Russian aggression and President Trump is simply ringing the warning bell,” Mr. Cotton said in an interview.

    Jason Miller, a senior adviser to Mr. Trump’s campaign, when asked to explain the former president’s statements — including whether it was an invitation for new aggression from Russia — did not directly address the question.

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