US senator calls for ‘someone in Russia’ to kill Putin
US senator Lindsey Graham He asked the murder of “someone in Russia” to the president Vladimir Putin after the invasion of Ukraine, to perform a “great service” to his country and the whole world, the statement that The Russian government deemed it “unacceptable and outrageous”.
Graham, a Republican US Congressman for over 20 years and occasionally a close ally of former President Donald Trump, spoke about the Ukraine conflict in a television interview Thursday night.
“How does this end? Someone in Russia has to step up (…) and get this guy out.”said the senator from South Carolina on the conservative grid fox news, hosted Sean Hannity.
Graham repeated the request later in a series of tweets, stating that “The only people who can fix this are the Russians.” “Are there Brutes in Russia?”he wondered, referring to one of the assassins of the Roman emperor Julius Caesar.
The senator, the Republican presidential nominee in 2016, also wondered if there was a “more successful Colonel Stauffenberg” in the Russian army, in an allusion to the German officer who tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944. “You will do your country, and the world, great service”he added.
“Web specialist. Incurable twitteraholic. Explorer. Organizer. Internet nerd. Avid student.”
