Ex-GOP Lawmaker Sums Up Current Republican Platform With 2 Stinging Words
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David Jolly also named and shamed the Republican lawmakers who “faceplant on the knee of Donald Trump.”
Former Rep. David Jolly (R-Fla.) on Monday offered a critical take on the GOP’s shift in stance on Russia.
“I don’t believe the Republican Party today sees Russia as an adversary. I don’t believe they see [Russia President] Vladimir Putin as uniquely evil,” Jolly told MSNBC’s Alicia Menendez.
“Today’s Republican Party has embraced American weakness,” he said. “They are OK looking the other way and giving equity to Vladimir Putin and Russia, and that’s not just a pivot of orthodox. That’s a new chapter of Republicanism.”
Republicans are willing to run on “American weakness,” he added.
Jolly’s criticism of his former party — which he quit in 2018 over its capitulation to then-President Donald Trump — comes amid Trump’s encouragement of Russia to attack NATO allies and the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a Russian prison, which has been widely blamed on the Kremlin.
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