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Posted: 2022-03-04T09:54:35Z | Updated: 2022-03-04T09:54:35Z Republican Group Reminds Fox New Viewers About Trump And Putin In Damning Ad | HuffPost

Republican Group Reminds Fox New Viewers About Trump And Putin In Damning Ad

Viewers of the right-wing network will see how Trump praised Putin's Ukraine plans only last week.

A Republican group is taking to the airwaves of Fox News to remind the right-wing network’s viewers that just last week, Donald Trump loved Russian President Vladimir Putin ’s plan to attack Ukraine.

A new ad from the Republican Accountability Project  replays Trump’s praise of Putin as “genius” and “savvy,” then juxtaposes the former president’s words against footage of the devastation in Ukraine: 

“Vladimir Putin is an enemy of the United States and an enemy of democracy,” Sarah Longwell, the group’s executive director, said in a news release. “It’s unconscionable that a former U.S. president would call a tyrant like Putin ‘smart’ as he attacks innocent people.”

The spot will run during Tucker Carlson ’s show next week. Carlson, like Trump, has also repeatedly defended and praised Putin, and also like Trump is now attempting to backpedal. 

The Republican Accountability Project said another right-wing network, Newsmax, refused to air the ad. 

The never-Trump conservative organization has also been working against GOP lawmakers who enabled Trump  and the Jan. 6 insurrection with a series of ads on Fox News, billboard campaigns and an online Hall of Shame .

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