Marjorie Taylor Greene parrots Russian talking points

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Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene parroted a Russian talking point with her claim that Ukraine is a country whose “government only exists because the Obama State Department helped to overthrow the previous regime.” https://www.factcheck.org/2022/03/marjorie-taylor-greene-parrots-russian-talking-point-on-ukraine/ Last week, Greene appeared to check her mobile phone rather than participate in a standing ovation for Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky when he addressed both chambers of Congress. Cawthorn arrived late, missing a large portion of the speech, after a viral video showed him telling supporters earlier this month that Zelensky was a “thug”. “Remember that the Ukrainian government is incredibly corrupt, and it is incredibly evil, and it has been pushing woke ideologies,” Cawthorn said in the clip. His comments — which have been shown regularly on Russian state television as part of the Kremlin’s information war — were immediately slapped down by fellow Republican lawmakers, including Thom Tillis, the senator from North Carolina, who said on Twitter: “If your comments are being replayed over and over by Russian state propaganda outlets . . . ” https://www.ft.com/content/fd870fa9-007a-4cd4-bffc-d72aa2a35767 There are hundreds more articles showing the GOP Putin wing's support for Russia and Putin and how they are "useful idiots" for Russia. Watching any channel other than the Putin boot-licking Fox News would have given you this information long ago.