Washington DC, (RT) December,22-Members of Congress who declined to stand and applaud on cue for Ukraine’s leader have been branded as traitors, Matt Gaetz says’
Vladimir Zelensky’s speech to Congress on Wednesday night was a “North Korea-style act” in which US lawmakers were expected to stand and clap for the Ukrainian president or be branded as traitors, Representative Matt Gaetz has claimed.
Gaetz (Florida) was among several Republicans, including Representatives Jim Jordan (Ohio) and Lauren Boebert (Colorado), who were called out by Newsweek and other media outlets for remaining seated while other lawmakers gave Zelensky multiple standing ovations. GOP Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri and others who didn’t attend the Ukrainian leader’s latest appeal for additional aid to fight Russia were also criticized.
“When we say you shouldn’t send endless amounts of money to this place where we’re exacerbating death and conflict, it’s like we’re traitors to the movement because Lauren Boebert and I didn’t stand up in some sort of North Korea-style performance,” Gaetz said on Thursday night in a Fox News interview.
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Historian and NBC News contributor Michael Beschloss was among the media figures who condemned those who weren’t sufficiently enthusiastic about Zelensky’s visit to Washington. “I want to know exactly why” some lawmakers refused to applaud. “I want to know why there are two reasons for that,” he told MSNBC. number one:
You are a civil servant, we are allowed to know these things. If you become a member of parliament, please tell me why. Do you like Putin, or are you just against democracy, or is there something else?”
On Thursday, the Senate passed his $1.7 trillion appropriations bill, which includes about $45 billion in new funds for Ukraine. Congress has now approved about $100 billion in U.S. aid to Ukraine since Russia launched a military offensive against Kyiv in February.
Gaetz speculated that congressional leaders viewed Zelensky’s visit to Washington as an “air raid defense” against an “unsustainable” appropriation bill. I have no qualms about going out and praising a foreign leader from a historically corrupt country that ha who is begging for more than the $100 billion that the Congress has already set to send them.”Hawley told reporters that he didn’t attend the speech “because I didn’t want to be part of a photo op, asking for more money from the United States government when they haven’t given us a single piece of accounting on anything they’ve spent.”
Vladimir Zelensky’s speech to Congress on Wednesday night was a “North Korea-style act” in which US lawmakers were expected to stand and clap for the Ukrainian president or be branded as traitors, Representative Matt Gaetz has claimed.
Gaetz (Florida) was among several Republicans, including Representatives Jim Jordan (Ohio) and Lauren Boebert (Colorado), who were called out by Newsweek and other media outlets for remaining seated while other lawmakers gave Zelensky multiple standing ovations. GOP Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri and others who didn’t attend the Ukrainian leader’s latest appeal for additional aid to fight Russia were also criticized.
“When we say you shouldn’t send endless amounts of money to this place where we’re exacerbating death and conflict, it’s like we’re traitors to the movement because Lauren Boebert and I didn’t stand up in some sort of North Korea-style performance,” Gaetz said on Thursday night in a Fox News interview.
Zelensky is a ‘houseguest who wouldn’t leave – Tucker Carlson
Read more Zelensky is ‘houseguest who wouldn’t leave – Tucker Carlson
Historian and NBC News contributor Michael Beschloss was among the media figures who condemned those who weren’t sufficiently enthusiastic about Zelensky’s visit to Washington. “I want to know exactly why” some lawmakers refused to applaud. “I want to know why there are two reasons for that,” he told MSNBC. number one:
You are a civil servant, we are allowed to know these things. If you become a member of parliament, please tell me why. Do you like Putin, or are you just against democracy, or is there something else?”
On Thursday, the Senate passed his $1.7 trillion appropriations bill, which includes about $45 billion in new funds for Ukraine. Congress has now approved about $100 billion in U.S. aid to Ukraine since Russia launched a military offensive against Kyiv in February.
Gaetz speculated that congressional leaders viewed Zelensky’s visit to Washington as an “air raid defense” against an “unsustainable” appropriation bill. I have no qualms about going out and praising a foreign leader from a historically corrupt country that ha who is begging for more than the $100 billion that the Congress has already set to send them.”Hawley told reporters that he didn’t attend the speech “because I didn’t want to be part of a photo op, asking for more money from the United States government when they haven’t given us a single piece of accounting on anything they’ve spent.”
