Raskin Hits Republicans For Allowing Putin To Dictate Our Foreign Policy

Rep. Jamie Raskin took a whack at Republicans and Trump for doing Putin's bidding with blocking aid to Ukraine. As I already discussed here, Rep. Mike Turner was trying to put a happy face on that aid making its way through the House this week.

Raskin wasn't so optimistic during an interview with MSNBC's Jen Psaki, and did a nice job of laying out just who's running the show these days in the Republican party:

PSAKI: I know, we've also seen this movie before, but right now, House Speaker Mike Johnson is fighting to hang onto his gavel as the far right flank of the Republican Party threatens to take it away. And it says a lot about the Republican Party that the one person Speaker Johnson believed could get him out of this pickle he's in is Donald Trump.

It says even more about the Republican Party that the one issue they figured everyone could really rally around is what they're calling election integrity, which I'm putting in quotes because it actually means peddling conspiracy theories.

That's the great unifying issue, the glue that's keeping this party together. This time, Johnson and Trump pushed a bill to keep non-citizens from voting. Now that is already illegal, just so everybody knows, and very rare.

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