President Joe Biden's connection with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was openly criticized by two Republicans on the House Foreign Relations Committee, who accused him of "abandoning the capital" by conducting business from his Delaware home while in Ukraine for a family burial.
Biden left the White House on Friday for Wilmington, Delaware, where he was due to attend "a family member's memorial ceremony," according to White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki.
Lawmakers Slam POTUS' Weekend Getaway in Delaware
The White House did not immediately confirm the identity of the person whose memorial service the president was scheduled to attend, but the mother of his late son Beau Biden's widow passed away on February 20, according to an obituary in the Wilmington News-Journal.
On the sidelines of the 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday, The Independent approached Tennessee Republican Mark Green, a member of the House Foreign Relations Committee, to ask him about the US response to Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to order an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
When one of his Republican colleagues on the foreign relations committee, California Representative Darrell Issa, approached, Green, a US Army veteran who retired with the rank of Major and has represented the Volunteer State's seventh congressional district since 2019, he began reciting what has become a common GOP argument about how unspecified "weakness" on the part of President Biden was in part to blame for Vladimir Putin's actions.
Meanwhile, as Russian troops struggle for Ukraine's capital, Sean Hannity called on President Biden to return to the White House on Friday after leaving for Delaware this weekend. Shortly after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he expects Russians will storm Kyiv, Hannity chastised President Biden for "fleeing the White House."
According to Hannity, the president will not stand up to his own party's climate change alarmists and boost American oil and gas development and drilling. He went on to say that they are "all the things [they] could do to relieve the pressure on our NATO friends and Western European partners," Fox News reported.
Joe, Jill Biden Exit White House on Friday
As Europe faces its most serious battle since World War II, President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden were photographed leaving the White House on Friday evening to join their Marine One helicopter. Even though both President Biden, 79, and First Lady Biden, 70, are vaccinated and boosted, and the CDC has signaled that the time to lift practically all regulations has come, President Biden and First Lady Biden wore their regular face masks.
Biden has access to technology that allows him to work from his opulent house in Rehoboth Beach, where he will keep up with the latest developments in Ukraine. However, detractors will certainly question whether Biden should stay in the White House to help project the strength and authority that comes with his position at a time when many people in the United States and around the world are concerned about their safety.
Former President Trump also spent weekends at his Mar-a-Lago and Bedminster clubs, but Biden prefers to spend his weekends in his Delaware home. The US has imposed a slew of punishing financial restrictions on Russia in an attempt to prevent Vladimir Putin from pursuing his invasion of Ukraine.
But the Russian president, whose personal fortune is estimated to be worth $200 billion by Forbes, has not been deterred thus far. Ukraine has received significant military weapons from the United States, and President Volodymyr Zelensky's forces appear to have delayed the Russian invasion thus far.
However, Kremlin troops entered Ukraine in the early hours of Saturday morning, and it is feared that Putin will take control of Kyiv later that day. The Pentagon's efforts to keep the war from escalating were polished but ultimately ineffective.
In an attempt to frighten Putin, US intelligence about Russian army movements before the invasion was disseminated significantly more freely than usual. America also warned Russia about the consequences it would suffer if it invaded, but Putin, who is obsessed with his image, decided to go through anyway, as per Daily Mail.
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