White House press secretary Jen Psaki said calling for the assassination of Vladimir Putin is “not the position of the United States government” on Friday after Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) suggested someone close to the Russian president should “take this guy out.”
On Thursday, Graham tweeted asking if there is a “Brutus in Russia,” referring to Marcus Junius Brutus, the Roman politician who led the conspiracy that resulted in the assassination of Julius Caesar.
“Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military?” Graham added, referencing Claus von Stauffenberg, a German army officer who unsuccessfully tried to kill […]
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