Instead of advancing conservative legislation in Congress to benefit his constituents, Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn took time out of his day to attack The Federalist’s CEO for criticizing his embarrassing Ukraine obsession.
Cornyn’s childish antics began on Tuesday morning, when the senior Texas senator tweeted a quote from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. In remarks given to The Atlantic, Zelensky offered a response to comments from Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who last week called on the United States to find a peaceful resolution to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine and decried the Biden administration’s increasing role in the conflict.
“Ukrainian President VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY ‘didn’t want to appeal to the hearts of Americans, in other words, but to their heads,’” Cornyn tweeted while quoting The Atlantic piece. “[T]his was his answer: Help us fight them here, help us defeat them here, and you won’t have to fight them anywhere else.”
In response to Cornyn’s Zelensky-simping, Federalist CEO and co-founder Sean Davis blasted the senator for buying such “nonsense” and called on Cornyn to “[s]top risking our security and wasting our money on stupid wars that have nothing to do with us.”
The “fight them there so we won’t fight them here” talking point regurgitated by Cornyn is the same rationale used to justify the United States’ disastrous invasion of Iraq 20 years ago. While Cornyn has regularly supported shipping endless amounts of U.S. taxpayer dollars to Ukraine — the second most corrupt country in Europe — with virtually
