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Posted on 03/10/2022 8:10:39 PM PST by conservative98
Rep. Madison Cawthorn labeled Volodymyr Zelensky a “thug” and his government “incredibly evil” amid Russia’s blood-soaked invasion of Ukraine.
The Republican from North Carolina was caught on tape at a campaign rally over the weekend attacking the Ukrainian president — who, according to his aide, has survived more than a dozen assassination attempts in the first two weeks of the war.
“Remember that Zelensky is a thug,” Cawthorn said, according to a video obtained by North Carolina’s WRAL. “Remember that the Ukrainian government is incredibly corrupt, and it is incredibly evil, and it has been pushing ‘woke’ ideologies.”
Cawthorn’s comments stand in stark contrast to the bipartisan support that’s grown around Zelensky and the Ukrainian military since the start of Russia’s brutal invasion last month.
But they echo the Republican line from 2019, when then-President Donald Trump was impeached for allegedly threatening to withhold military aid from Zelensky’s government unless the Ukrainian government investigated then-candidate Joe Biden.
During the 2019 impeachment proceedings — which culminated with Trump being acquitted by a party-line vote — GOP Rep. Jim Jordan said Ukraine was regarded by accounting firm Ernst & Young as “one of the three most corrupt countries on the planet.”
Cawthorn is currently running for reelection in North Carolina’s 11th district, where he is facing seven Republican primary challengers.
Cawthorn took to Twitter on Thursday after taking heat for bashing Zelensky.
He called Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion “disgusting,” and said he is “praying for Ukraine and the Ukrainian people.”
He did not walk back his attack on the Ukrainian leader, however.
“Leaders, including Zelensky, should NOT push misinformation on America,” he said.
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Propaganda is being used to entice America into another war.
I do not want Americans dying because emotions pushed us into a conflict.https://t.co/1IWJ33Tgqd— Rep. Madison Cawthorn (@RepCawthorn) March 10, 2022
The actions of Putin and Russia are disgusting.
But leaders, including Zelensky, should NOT push misinformation on America.
I am praying for Ukraine and the Ukrainian people.
Pray also we are not drawn into conflict based on foreign leaders pushing misinformation.— Rep. Madison Cawthorn (@RepCawthorn) March 10, 2022
I know it is heresy at this point but I agree with him.
What a jackass. He’s a thug compared to Putin?
thug? he certainly is dirty
it’s perfectly possible that both sides of that conflict are wretched beyond belief, you know
Help me out here. The the Ukrainians are supposedly SJWs. But Theres several posts here claiming the Ukranians are also Nazis. Not figurative Nazis literal Nazis with the same ideology as Adolf Hitler. And other posts claiming they are extreme white nationalist racists. So the Ukranians are woke sjw Nazis white nationalist racists?
the guy before zelensky was poisoned and I don’t think Russia did it.
look around chumps
“the Ukrainian president — who, according to his aide, has survived more than a dozen assassination attempts in the first two weeks of the war.”
LOL, did his kid throw a baseball to him?
Just like Biden is vs Obama
Yep. Both governments are corrupt and unprincipled.
And the innocent citizens of those countries are the ones who suffer as a result.
Ukraine is the main money laundry for the DNC.
I suggest that the Ukranians are innocent victims and the n@zi$ are the like ANTIFA and BLM in the U.S. but much more powerful and ruthless, and supported by the puppeteers in the Ukranian government. i.e. ZelenskyY.
Yep. Both governments are corrupt and unprincipled.
He speaks some truth he has guts.
All Putin was doing was putting troops on the border to “possibly “ aid 3 Russian separatist areas, then along comes joe, and we got a war, but hunter is doing coke on his Ukrainian money
Biden needs to put troops on our border, nit the Canadian one, and I love mi amigos
Our government sucks too.
What’s your point?
wish Healy was here to weigh in, he was in Ukraine
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