A Republican lawmaker bucked the administration on Saturday, citing the conservative Wall Street Journal's new report on Donald Trump allies who are cashing in on ending the Russia-Ukraine war.
The Journal's piece ahead of the weekend, Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine, claims that, "The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board."
"For the Kremlin, the Miami talks were the culmination of a strategy, hatched before Trump’s inauguration, to bypass the traditional U.S. national security apparatus and convince the administration to view Russia not as a military threat but as a land of bountiful opportunity, according to Western security officials," the Wall Street Journal reported. "By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies."
That report caught the attention of at least one Republican congressman.
Rep. Don Bacon, who recently issued an unrelated warning to Trump, chimed in on the report over the weekend. The lawmaker said, "WSJ today. Multi-billion $ business deals between Russian & American billionaires that forces Ukraine to give Russia more land, & make Ukraine a Russian vassal state. Greed trumps Ukrainian sovereignty. Churchill & Reagan are turning in their graves."
"Putin’s worth is approx $200B and he has been an intelligence officer, politician and dictator. Russia is one of the most corrupt in the world and Putin wants to share in the plunder with those who will help him enslave Ukraine," he added in a separate post.