Letter to the editor: Traitorous views of Putin

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” said Republican patriotic icon President Ronald Reagan on June 12, 1987, standing at the Berlin Wall.

By sorry contrast, ex-President Trump last week said Vladimir Putin made a “genius” decision when he recognized two pro-Kremlin breakaway states in eastern Ukraine and ordered Russian troops across the border on a so-called “peacekeeping” mission.

On Saturday, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was a featured speaker at a white nationalist conference in Orlando, Fla., where Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was actually cheered and Putin’s name was chanted.

What has happened to the Republican Party we once knew? It has descended from a party that vigorously championed freedom to one that praises the world’s most prominent despot as he attacks his neighbor.

High treason, as defined in our Constitution, includes in part to “adhering to their enemies giving them aid and comfort.” Trump’s and Greene’s treasonous remarks are being played with glee on Russian TV.

“It’s good that the United States is not neighbors of Russia, otherwise no one in the United States would have such an opinion about President Putin,” Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on a Bloomberg TV interview.

We are waiting for Republican leadership to vigorously denounce these traitorous views of Trump and Greene.

Charles Henry

Greensburg