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Former Vice President Mike Pence condemned "apologists" for Russian President Vladimir Putin within the Republican Party, an indirect dig at former President Donald Trump, during a foreign policy address delivered on the first anniversary of Russia invading Ukraine. "While some in my party have taken a somewhat different view, let me be clear," he told the University of Texas at Austin's Clements Center for National Security Friday. "There can be no room in the leadership of the Republican Party for apologists for Putin. There can only be room for champions of freedom." Pence described Russia's war in Ukraine as "unprovoked"...

A series of private emails that were sent to all 168 members of the Republican National Committee after former President Donald Trump met with Kanye West and white nationalist Nick Fuentes give an inside look at RNC members’ exasperation with Trump’s antics. While several members of the RNC had called on Chair Ronna McDaniel to publicly denounce Trump for the meeting, a number of RNC members reportedly expressed their unease in the email conversation. The emails contained comments directly relating to Trump’s dinner with West and Fuentes, according to the Washington Examiner, including calls for Republican leaders to denounce Trump....

"Well, I'm not sure he would have done much of anything, frankly," Bolton said in an interview with Vice published March 1, responding to a question about what Trump might have done had Russia attacked Ukraine while he was president. "But you never know with Trump. It depends on what time of day it is, it depends on what he thought his political benefit would be at any given moment. I don't think ultimately he would have stood in Putin's way," Bolton told Vice. Bolton said he thought Trump's glorification of Putin was "embarrassing for the United States." He also...