Liz Cheney schools Marjorie Taylor Greene on Russia: ‘You stand with Putin against freedom and America’

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Rep Liz Cheney hit out at fellow Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene after the Georgia lawmaker made remarks at a rally that her Wyoming colleague described as “exactly what Putin wants”. At another point, which Ms Cheney zeroed in on and later called out on social media, Ms Greene seemed to voice support for Russian President Vladimir Putin as she exclaimed that, should the GOP regain control of the House and the Senate next week, Ukraine would see their funding from the US cut off. “If we’d had Republicans like this in the 1980s, we would have lost the Cold War.” In response, Ms Greene quipped back: “There are two things that are in the past. A US politician covers up their crimes in countries like Ukraine.” Her remarks inside and outside Congress drew wide rebuke, with Rep Jamie Raskin of Maryland calling her out immediately during the debate by saying, “Here’s a formula for the destruction of democracy: repeating Putin’s propaganda and disinformation and appeasing imperialist assaults on sovereign nations.”