Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) accused Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of using “Kremlin talking points” as the Georgia congresswoman doubled down on her opposition to additional aid to Ukraine.
“Once again Moscow Marge is busy deploying her Kremlin talking points,” Cheney wrote in a post on X/Twitter. “Is she a useful idiot or is she intentionally spreading Putin’s lies? Either way it’s pathetic and unAmerican.”
Cheney’s comment was in response to Greene’s interview on Steve Bannon’s podcast where she slammed members of Congress for supporting additional aid to Ukraine as a they defend themselves against an unprovoked Russian invasion.
“This whole thing is the most repulsive, disgusting thing happening and the American people are the ones writing the check,” Greene said. “And I absolutely hate everybody here that is doing this. I mean, I seriously hate them for doing this to the American people and paying for the murder and slaughter of people in Ukraine.”
Greene continued: “Vladimir Putin has not said he wants to go march across Europe and take Europe, and the reality is Ukraine is not even a NATO member nation. But if you want to know something [U.S. Department of Defense Secretary] Lloyd Austin and the others here more than anything want to send your uncles, your cousins and your sons and daughters to the frontlines in Ukraine because that is the only country that for some weird, sick and evil reason that they care about.”
Greene has filed a motion to vacate the chair after Johnson struck a deal with Democrats on a bipartisan spending package that averted a government shutdown last month.
She said the motion was a warning and didn’t give a specific timeline for a vote to remove the speaker, but the Georgia congresswoman suggested to CNN that Johnson moving ahead with the Ukraine aid bill is her red line.
“I’m not saying I have a red line or a trigger, and I’m not saying I don’t have a red line or trigger,” Greene said. “But I’m going to tell you right now: funding Ukraine is probably one of the most egregious things that he can do.”
