All posts tagged "Putin"

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) said over the weekend he will force a House vote to block Russian oil purchases. The move directly challenges President Donald Trump’s new diesel deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Axios reported.

Fitzpatrick co-chairs the Congressional Ukraine Caucus. He said he would introduce the “Ronald Reagan Peace Through Strength Act” and use a discharge petition to get around Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). A discharge petition needs 218 signatures to bring a bill to the floor without leadership’s approval.

“It will be forced to the Floor via discharge and it will pass overwhelmingly,” Fitzpatrick wrote on X....

Donald Trump's recent attempt at political "bribery" has backfired, and is now causing the public to see the president's major weakness, according to a former senior advisor to Obama Sunday.

Dan Pfeiffer, former senior advisor to Obama and current host to Pod Save America, recently predicted a clip featuring Trump will make its way into about a million advertisements to be used against the president and the GOP. Now, Pfeiffer is seizing on the president's pardon of a Democrat accused of bribery.

Trump this weekend lashed out at Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) after learning that the lawmaker – whom he had pardoned this week following bribery and conspiracy charges – still plans to run for re-election as a Democrat, decrying it as “such a lack of loyalty.” But in doing so, he raised a red flag for political analysts....

A stunned analyst Wednesday said that a Trump administration official coached Russia on how to win over President Donald Trump in the proposed peace plan between Russia and Ukraine.

Trump envoy Steve Witkoff is facing criticism over his handling of the negotiations with Russia to end the conflict in Ukraine, which has been considered overly favorable to Russia. The unusual move was questioned by Ben Rhodes, former Deputy National Security advisor in the President Barack Obama administration, in a conversation with MS NOW's Chris Jansing on Wednesday.

"It's unthinkable that we'd have a situation like this where it feels like the Russians kind of brought their own maximalist surrender plan, essentially for Ukraine to Witkoff thinking that he would be, you know, essentially a friendly voice inside the administration. And then we subsequently learned that, as you know, Marco Rubio is over there trying to make this a little bit more balanced and still overwhelmingly favoring Russia," Rhodes said. ...

President Donald Trump's niece and vocal critic has called her uncle out for the peace proposal that she says puts Ukrainians — and global democracy — in a dangerous position.

In her Substack essay published Tuesday, Mary Trump described how Trump pressured Ukraine to reach the peace proposal by Nov. 27 and had threatened to withdraw the allied country's access to U.S. intelligence.

"Ten months into his failure of a presidency, Donald has finally offered up a peace proposal. It’s so disadvantageous to Ukraine that it may as well have been written by Putin. And it probably was," Mary Trump wrote. ...

President Donald Trump's own officials are reportedly begging him to reverse course over his suggestion to ramp up explosive nuclear testing, according to reports on Friday.

CNN's Betsy Klein told CNN anchor Brianna Keilar that top energy and nuclear officials are planning to meet at the White House in the coming days in an attempt to dissuade President Trump from resuming testing of the nation's nuclear weapons.

"Well, Brianna, you might remember that absolutely stunning announcement from President Trump on social media just moments before he was set to meet with China's leader, Xi Jinping in Asia just a couple of weeks ago, that he was directing the Pentagon to immediately begin testing of U.S. nuclear weapons on an equal basis. And that would mark a major shift in U.S. policy," Klein said....

Pro-MAGA host Gina Loudon accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of being "just as evil" as Russian President Vladimir Putin because he did not wear a suit during a visit to the White House earlier this year.

On the eve of a summit between Putin and President Donald Trump, Loudon lashed out at Zelenskyy on Real America's Voice.

"I mean, just shame on Zelenskyy, though," she said. "I mean, I can't stand Putin. He's a horrible, evil KGB communist. Let's never forget that. But at the same time, Zelenskyy has taken a lot of money from the U.S. government and others."...