On Monday evening, MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell touted that a potential Democratic Senate majority would lead to a bill passed to cease President Trump’s purchase of Russian oil. Joining in on O’Donnell’s argument was Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D), who claimed that Trump and Ukraine’s President Zelensky shared similarities to Hitler and Churchill, leading to O’Donnell’s bloviating that Trump was providing finances in support of enemy troops against the U.S.’s own service members.
O’Donnell began his dramatics by recounting the recent video call between members of the House and Senate and Zelensky showing their support to Ukraine after Trump’s announcement to buy Russian oil to bring down the price of diesel ahead of the election.
As opposed to seeing the purchase of oil as relief for Americans’ pockets, Senator Whitehouse made it clear that he viewed Trump as the enemy:
The dismay and the disgust about the President's behavior was palpable, irrespective of whether it was a house or senate member, whether it was a Republican or a Democrat. And I hope that President Zelensky and the Ukrainians who are fighting so nobly and bravely against the savagery of Putin, took some consolation from that.
And when we have the chance, I think, to legislate will make clear through law that the President's attitude about this and his conduct is just dead wrong.
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. steve malzberg
