Sen. Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Olin GrahamThe nine biggest Democratic National Convention moments that got everyone talking The Hill's 12:30 Report: Delegates stage state-centric videos for the roll call Lindsey Graham praises Jill Biden speech: 'Outstanding person' MORE (R-S.C.), a prominent foreign policy hawk and Russia critic, tweeted support for a Russian opposition figure who is believed to have been poisoned by government agents.
Graham took to Twitter to voice support for Alexei Navalny, considered the unofficial leader of the Russian opposition and a top critic of President Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich PutinThe nine biggest Democratic National Convention moments that got everyone talking Duckworth blasts Trump as 'coward in chief' Host Julia Louis-Dreyfus opens final night of convention with shots at Trump, Pence, Fox News MORE, after his apparent poisoning, saying the situation was “very sad.”
“It goes without saying that you oppose Putin at your own peril and people like Mr. Navalny are on the right side of history. As always, the price for standing up for freedom comes at a heavy cost,” Graham tweeted, adding that opposition figures in Russia “have my admiration and total support.”
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Graham predicted that Putin’s efforts to silence opposition voices in the country will come back to haunt him, warning, “The old adage 'Live by the sword, die by the sword’ will eventually come into play for Putin.”
“The Russian people will reach a tipping point where they tire of Putin and his cronies plundering the nation and sowing discord throughout the world -- all at the expense of the average Russian,” he said.
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The Russian people will reach a tipping point where they tire of Putin and his cronies plundering the nation and sowing discord throughout the world -- all at the expense of the average Russian.
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) August 21, 2020
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Graham is just the latest lawmaker to express support for Navalny after he fell ill in Siberia. While the exact circumstances are not clear, he is reportedly in a coma after drinking tea laced with poison, a tool used in the past by Putin’s government against vocal critics. It is the second time Navalny is believed to have been poisoned, though the first incident was officially ruled as an allergic reaction.
Bipartisan members of Congress panned Putin over the apparent attack. Sen. Marco Rubio
Marco Antonio RubioPoisoning of Putin opponent could test US-Moscow relationship Rep. Ross Spano loses Florida GOP primary amid campaign finance scrutiny Five takeaways from final Senate Intel Russia report MORE (R-Fla.), the acting chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the suspected poisoning was “at least the 31st assassination attempt against a Putin opponent/defector,” and Sen. Chris Murphy
Christopher (Chris) Scott MurphyPoisoning of Putin opponent could test US-Moscow relationship When America's schools reopen, police don't belong there Democrats ramp up warnings on Russian election meddling MORE (D-Md.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called the incident “awful news.”
Navalny’s apparent poisoning adds a new wrinkle to the relationship between Washington and Moscow, which President Trump
Donald John TrumpFive takeaways from the Democratic National Convention What we'll remember from the 2020 Biden convention Chris Wallace labels Biden's acceptance speech 'enormously effective' MORE has actively tried to improve. He told Axios last month that he did not discuss reports that Russia offered bounties to the Taliban to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan in a phone call with Putin, has expressed openness to bringing Russia back into the Group of Seven and is reportedly seeking a meeting with Putin before of the November election to discuss a nuclear arms control agreement.
The government also recently put out a report saying Russia was looking to interfere in the 2020 election to help boost Trump, though the White House has downplayed those efforts.
Trump closed the Russian Consulate in Seattle and expelled 48 Russian diplomats in the U.S. and 12 Russian intelligence officials based at the United Nations after the 2018 poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in 2018 in the United Kingdom, though Navalny’s poisoning may be harder to punish given that it happened in Russia.
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