Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) did not take kindly when asked on CNN about outgoing Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) comparing President Donald Trump's about-face on supporting Ukraine against the Russian invasion to the efforts by disgraced British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to make peace with Nazi Germany.
Burchett, a regular guest in defense of the Trump agenda on CNN, has been known for his contentious interviews, recently forcing an anchor to cut his mic during an argument about tech billionaire Elon Musk's government takeover.
"So I want to ask you, Republican Senator Mitch McConnell put out a statement saying, quote, 'Refusing to acknowledge Russia as the undeniable and unprovoked aggressor is more than an unseemly moral equivalency. It reflects a gross misunderstanding of the nature of negotiations and leverage, unquote,'" said anchor Jake Tapper. "McConnell also mentioned what he called British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's, quote, 'naive policy of appeasement' ... as we know, it did not prevent World War II. What do you think of Senator McConnell comparing this to appeasement?"
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"I think it's bogus," said Burchett curtly.
"Look, we put over $200 billion into this thing," he continued. "Trump's working on a negotiated peace. I think that's a great thing. Neville Chamberlain, he was a coward. And Hitler — Putin is no Hitler and Hitler is no Putin."
"I mean, the comparison there, you're talking about Russia, whose GDP is somewhere between Canada's and France's," Burchett added. "I do not think Putin has the capabilities, nor has he shown it to, to rage across Europe, as Hitler did, in just a matter of weeks during the Blitzkrieg. So that's, that's — I hate anybody that makes any comparisons to Hitler or the Holocaust because there is no comparison to that."
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