Even by Donald Trump's sub-basement standards, the sadism was shocking. "You should have never started it," he declared to the nation of Ukraine, which has been fighting off an invasion by Russia for three years now. Even many Republicans, so used to making excuses for Trump's various lies and abuses, were taken aback by Trump's total reversal of victim and abuser.
"Putin started this war. Putin committed war crimes. Putin is the dictator who murdered his opponents," Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., posted on X, clearly rattled in the way liberals have been for nearly a decade under the onslaught of Trump's endless gaslighting.
