Over the weekend, President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a summit, and Florida Republicans are now responding to the event.
Florida Senator Marco Rubio commented that “What the president said today is not accurate. The intelligence community has assembled probably an unparalleled amount of evidence in regards to the Russian, not just efforts to interfere in 2016, but ongoing efforts to interfere in American society.”He added that “All I can speculate is that there is an effort underway to figure out if by being nice to Vladimir Putin there is a way that we can establish a better working relationship, which in a perfect world would not be a bad thing between two nations that possess 90 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons. The flaw in that … is that Vladimir Putin is not interested in a better working relationship with the United States because he views the world, he views geopolitics, as a battle between the strong and the weak.”
In addition, Governor Rick Scott was also critical of President Putin, explaining that “Putin is not our friend. Putin is not our ally. I don’t trust Putin. It clearly appears that Russia tried to meddle in our election… As a senator I’m not going to trust Putin. I’m never going to consider him to be an ally and I’m going to be very skeptical of anything he says.”
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Also, Congressman Ron DeSantis, recently endorsed by President Donald Trump in DeSantis’ bid to become Florida Governor, commented that “In terms of the meddling, I think the point to make, that the president could make very easily, is this happened when Obama was president and one of the reasons it happened, I think, is because people in the Russian government didn’t think Obama would do anything. So I think the president had an opportunity to point that out and say, you know, there’s a new sheriff in town. Because his administration has been tougher on Russia than Obama. For example, we tried to get legal aid to Ukraine so it could defend itself against Russian oppression. Obama opposed that. President Trump supports that. So he’s got a story to tell and I think that he should try to do that.”
