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Marjorie Taylor Greene attacks Joe Biden for visiting Ukraine: It doesn't go well [1]

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Date: 2023-02-20  

On Monday, President Joe Biden made a surprise visit to Kyiv. This is the first time that Biden has visited since Russia invaded Ukraine in late February 2022. Biden’s choice of using President’s Day to take photos in Kyiv alongside Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was an important diplomatic move, and a powerful illustration of American support of Ukraine’s independence from the Russian oligarchy as represented by Vladimir Putin.

More superficially, it stole away headlines from cranks like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and her attempt to relitigate the Jan. 6 insurrection as some secret deep state operation. Greene had hoped to drop big news in a coordinated misinformation campaign alongside Fox News’ Tucker Carlson on Monday, and was big mad about Biden’s very presidential President’s Day appearance in the European theater.

She sent out a series of posts that can only have been written by Greene, including one where she wrote, on President’s Day, “This is incredibly insulting. Today on our President’s Day, Joe Biden, the President of the United States chose Ukraine over America, while forcing the American people to pay for Ukraine’s government and war. I can not express how much Americans hate Joe Biden.”

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