[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 120 (Tuesday, July 17, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H6273]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       TRUMP BLAMES AMERICA FIRST

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, I rise to respectfully call upon our 
Republican colleagues to stand up for America by standing up against 
and rejecting President Donald Trump's surrender to murderous dictator 
Vladimir Putin.
  Putin may well have elected Trump, but Putin is against us all, 
Democrats and Republicans alike, and he is against our cherished 
democracy.
  Without his congressional Republican enablers, Trump cannot continue 
to coddle the Russians at the very time that his Director of National 
Intelligence, lifelong Republican Dan Coats, is warning that we are 
under sustained Russian attack.
  In his embarrassing, fawning praise of Putin, Trump expresses no 
concern for Putin's military shooting down a civilian airliner four 
years ago today; Putin's agents poisoning his enemies and jailing his 
opponents; Putin's invasions of Ukraine and Georgia; and Putin's 
interference and attacks on our elections, as certified by U.S. 
intelligence agencies.
  Don't await your retirement to stand up and address the truth of 
Trump's betrayal of our country.

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