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The republican representative Michael McCaul of Texas called on the members of his closed party this week to parrobed the Russian disinformation and the discussion points of Russian President Vladimir Putin, a source in the room told CNN.
McCaul, a former President of Foreign Affairs of the Chamber and faithful supporter of Ukraine, admitted Tuesday during the private event with NATO ambassadors and the defense ministers that his strong stance should play an active role in the deterrence of Russian assault makes him a dying race in the Republican Party, added the source.
The McCaul office refused to comment on private remarks. McCaul A previously Warned of Russian propaganda infecting “a good part” of the basis of his party.
The change in the party far from the “force to the force” of the former president of the GOP, Ronald Reagan, has created a sort of striped rope for many Republicans who seek to balance their support for Ukraine with the more isolated point of view adopted by President Donald Trump.
While the Republicans of Congress were divided into aid for aid to Ukraine in the midst of his three -year war with Russia, a certain number of the party continues to publicly defend the country torn apart by the war.
This week, the GOP representative, Don Bacon, has echoed the worries that the noisy voices of his party adopting an isolationist approach harm American foreign relations and potentially undercoat the success of the party in the process.
“This is a winning problem. However, the Republicans are divided there,” said Bacon in a conversation with CNN After the event With veterans, where he appeared alongside the presidents of the Ukrainian Parliament of the Defense Committee, deputy Oleksandr Lytvynenko.
“I would like Trump to have more moral clarity than there is a good guy and a bad guy here and we want to be on the right side.”
The relationship between Washington and kyiv was volatile since Trump took office, from pause president and impauciant military support and American intelligence to Ukraine to a controversial oval office meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky at the end of February. Meanwhile, the United States has not imposed any penalty on Russia, even though Moscow refused to accept a proposal from the White House for a 30-day ceasefire and continues to place conditions even on a partial ceasefire in the Black Sea.
There have been few cases of republicans separating with Trump so far this congress, making public positions by self -proclaimed reaganites all the more notable.
Two days after the confrontation of Trump’s oval office with Zelensky, the GOP representative Brian Fitzpatrick took matters into his own hands for talk With the chief of staff of Zelensky and collect “this train on the tracks”.
The former republican leader of the Senate, Mitch McConnell, strongly criticized the Ukrainian policy of the Trump administration and pivot towards isolationism last monthAccusing Trump’s advisers to show “their embarrassing naivety” in relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. GOP Roger Wicker senator delivered a passionate soil speech last month Speaking against information that the Trump administration was preparing to raise a number of sanctions against Russia. And Bacon published an editorial of the New York Times this week Entitled “My Republican compatriots and President Trump, we have to resist Putin”.
“I do not know if the group is smaller or not, it’s just that the other train of thought is just to be more vocal,” said GOP representative Dan Newhouse. “I think many people still feel that we are holding on our friends. America needs its allies, and they need us and that it was a symbiotic and very positive relationship. ”
A certain number of Republicans who have rejected the administration – to condemn Trump’s assertion that Zelensky is a “dictator” to the expression of disapproval of the administration’s approach to negotiate a cease -fire agreement between countries – says they had to be strategic on the time of making public statements.
“There is the president of the committees who say:” Don, you are the spokesperson on this subject, you must continue. “Including those who are not vocals themselves,” said Bacon.
But even if the public pressure reflected and flows, the legislators of the GOP tell CNN that they are committed to regularly showing their cause behind the scenes of anyone will listen to.
Recognizing that sometimes the disconnection of the public public, the republican representative Dusty Johnson of the southern Dakota said: “The reality is that people always have a trend when their team is in the White House to rent in public and criticize in private. This is what we also have to do good teammates. ”
The representative of the Gop Joe Wilson of South Carolina still keeps pins next to the Ukrainian and American flags at hand. His cufflinks, a gift from the deputy mayor of kyiv, tell the success of the Ukrainian forces which flow the “mother vessel” of the fleet of the Russian Black Sea, with its left showing a Ukrainian welding on the beach of the flagship product and its right showing the sinking of the Russian missile cruiser.
“I am a student in history, and I have the impression that we are retiring somewhat 1939 when, on September 1, Hitler invaded Poland,” said Wilson, co -chair of the Bipartite commission of Helsinki, comparing the beginning of the Second World War to the invasion of Putin of Ukraine.
Although he said that he was “not opposed” to everything Trump does, he wanted the now famous oval office meeting to have been a “private conversation”.
He clings to one time that he had with the president of the House Mike Johnson last year during the RNC Convention in Milwaukee, telling CNN that the speaker validated in a room full of European Union ambassadors that he was a “reaganite”.
“I broke out in applause,” recalls Wilson.
But Johnson, who risky his job last year To pass critical funding for foreign aid, considerably withdrew the issue and recently reported to Trump.
During the Conservative Political Action Conference in February, Johnson rocked his head when he was asked if he had seen another financing bill for the war in Ukraine.
“There is no appetite for that,” said the speaker. “What do you think?”
The far right crowd broke out in hoots.