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I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump unleashed a long rambling tweet that falsely blamed Ukrainian President Zelensky for Russia's invasion and pushed a whole lot of other lies that sounded exactly like Russian propaganda, because that's exactly what it was.

This forced Republicans into some wild contortions that were even more transparently evasive than usual.

Which raises a question, what should Democrats be saying right now about all this?

It seems like an unusually good opportunity to indict the whole GOP for its craven embrace of Trump and all he

represents. Will they seize it? We're talking today about this to Brian Boytler, author of the

great substack off message, who's offered some of the sharpest advice to Democrats on how to

proceed in the Trump era. Good to have you back on, Brian. It's great to be back.

Let's start with Trump's tweet. He said, Zelensky is a dictator who talked to the U.S. into spending money on Ukraine's self-defense, that Zelensky played Biden like a fiddle.

He said, only Trump, speaking of himself, will be able to settle the war, that Zelensky had better move fast or he's not going to have a country left.

He said Zelensky has done a terrible job and that millions have needlessly died.

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