"I don’t accept George Orwell’s doublethink," one House Republican said after President Trump blamed Ukraine for starting the war with Russia.
Several top Republican foreign-policy pols are sounding the alarm that Russia’s push for Ukraine to hold elections as part of a deal to end the war could lead to subterfuge from the Kremlin. Russian and US officials met in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday without a Ukrainian representative present to discuss an end to the war.
GOP officials who have supported Ukraine are trying to balance their opposition to Russia while remaining loyal to Trump.
There was a small Republican contingent in Congress that repeatedly sided with Russia’s wishes. Now, evidently, it’s Donald Trump’s turn.
The former GOP congresswoman said on Wednesday that Trump "is the antithesis of everything Ronald Reagan stood for."
Republican senators went to great lengths to avoid bashing President Donald Trump's comments on Ukraine but they didn't hold back on Russian President Vladimir Putin.
CNN's Jim Sciutto challenged a conservative commentator to justify Donald Trump's weakness against Russia, and then moved on when he was unimpressed with his response. The TV host started out by asking Republican strategist Brad Todd why the president had made concessions to Russia heading into negotiations to wind down the war in Ukraine after
U.S. President Donald Trump's comments this week claiming Ukraine was responsible for starting the three-year conflict with Russia and calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy "a dictator without elections" drew criticism from congressional Democrats and pushback from some members of the Republican Party.
Republican lawmakers were split Wednesday over President Donald Trump’s attacks on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky — but their pushback was muted, underscoring the GOP’s shifting stance on Russia’s invasion.
A clip of Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) brutally dismantling the notion that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a man to be trusted, as Donald Trump has claimed, is indicative of how the majority of GOP lawmakers are privately appalled at Trump's Russia cheerleading.