On Saturday’s Velshi show, the host discussed the “growing chorus” of Republicans who plan to sabotage support for Ukraine if the GOP wins control of the House.
Then Velshi played a clip of Masters’ spectacularly ignorant and/or dishonest attack on aid for Ukraine and salute to TFG:
MASTERS: Are you guys getting tired of the federal government sending Ukraine 10 or 12 billion dollars every six weeks? I really am. First, it’s a question of prioritization. Why can Mark Kelly find 50 billion to secure Ukraine's border with Russia but he can't find ten billion to secure our own border with Mexico?
Also, of course, I worry that Biden is just sleepwalking, stumbling, he's like a zombie, stumbling us closer to nuclear war. Guess what you didn't have to really worry about under President Trump? Nuclear war.
“Did he just say that?” Velshi asked, incredulous. “First off, the United States has committed almost 19 billion dollars to Ukraine under President Biden,” Velshi said. “21 billion dollars in total since Russia's 2014 invasion. That is far less than the 50 billion dollars that Masters just made up." That figure appears to be debatable, depending on whether you count non-military aid. But there is no way the aid comes close to 10 or 12 billion every six weeks.
It is absolutely true that we had lots to worry about Donald Trump starting a nuclear war.
Trump “threatened the nuclear annihilation of multiple countries on multiple occasions,” Velshi continued. The screen showed Trump’s multiple nuclear threats to North Korea (before he “fell in love” with its dictator). “He also had to be prevented from misusing nuclear weapons from top officials on multiple occasions,” Velshi said, as the screen showed an NBC News headline stating that Gen. Mark Milley “acted to prevent Trump from misusing nuclear weapons, war with China.”
But wait, there’s more. “He withdrew the United States from the 1987 Nuclear Force Treaty,” Velshi added, which “prevented the U.S. and Russia from creating stockpiles of intermediate range ballistic and cruise missiles and nuclear weapons.”
He even suggested he’d use them in the Russia/Ukraine war. “Back in March,” Velshi said, “Donald Trump said during, an interview on Fox News, if he were still president he would react to Russia's action in Ukraine by threatening nuclear war with Russia.”
Later, Lt. Col. (Ret.) Alexander Vindman reminded Velshi that Trump also wanted to nuke hurricanes.
There are lots of reasons Masters should never be allowed in the Senate. But now there are a few more.
