… Senator doubles down on calls to ‘take him out’ and insists Vlad should be hunted like Al Capone

  • On Thursday the Republican Senator invoked Julius Caesar-style assignation of the Russian President who is currently leading an invasion of Ukraine
  • ‘Is there a Brutus in Russia? Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military?’ he tweeted
  • ‘The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out. You would be doing your country — and the world — a great service,’ his tweet continued 
  • He doubled down on the comments Friday, saying an Eliot Ness or Wyatt Earp needs to take action 
  • ‘You need to take this guy out back any means possible,’ Graham said
  • Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.) pushed back on Graham’s tweet, calling it ‘an exceptionally bad idea,’ calling for global sanctions and a Russian energy boycott
  • In a separate tweet Graham added that the responsibility of eliminating Putin laid solely in the hands of Russian citizens
  • His tweets come after Europe’s largest nuclear plant was on fire in the early hours of Friday morning after coming under attack by Russian troops
  • ‘These days, not everyone manages to maintain sobriety, I would even say sanity, and many lose their mind,’ responded Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov
  • Remarks also prompted furious reaction from Russian ambassador to the US
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