Sens. Marco Rubio (R‑Fla.) and Steve Daines (R‑Mont did not think twice about jeopardizing the security of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last Saturday while on a Zoom call with the president.
Though asked by the Ukrainian Ambassador not to share the conversation because of concerns for Zelensky’s safety, the two Republicans tweeted out pictures of the Ukrainian president. They talked about being on ZOOM with Zelensky.
Democratic Reps. Dean Phillips of Minnesota and Jason Crow of Colorado criticized the senators on Twitter.
Phillips said that the “Ukrainian ambassador very intentionally asked each of us on the Zoom NOT to share anything on social media during the meeting to protect the security of President Zelenskyy.”
“The lack of discipline in Congress is truly astounding,” Crow wrote. “If an embattled wartime leader asks you to keep quiet about a meeting, you better keep quiet about the meeting. I’m not saying a damn thing. Lives are at stake.”
We may never know whether or not these two clowns intentionally wanted to place the Ukrainian president in grave danger. Still, Rubio is reported to have received millions of dollars in so-called campaign contributions from a Russian Oligarch.
I never trusted nor liked the little weasel, but that’s neither here nor there.
Rubio knows better; he handles sensitive intelligence as vice-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which makes his actions even more disturbing.
To add insult to injury, he doubled down in true trumpian fashion, insisting that his actions did not jeopardize the security of the embattled Ukrainian leader.
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Mike Beckles is a former Police Detective, businessman, freelance writer, black achiever honoree, and creator of the blog mikebeckles.com