CNN’s Jake Tapper almost caught himself doing his job for once as he pressed Secretary of State Antony Blinken to pick a side. The Biden administration keeps skirting the notion that Putin will face charges for war crimes but then cowardly backing out.
Blinken spoke with <a href=”https://www.dailywire.com/news/jake-tapper-presses-blinken-to-pick-a-side-has-the-u-s-seen-evidence-that-russia-is-committing-war-crimes”>Tapper</a> during a Sunday morning interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” and Tapper argued that the ambiguous position President Joe Biden’s administration appeared to be taking was confusing at best.
Tapper <a href=”https://www.dailywire.com/news/jake-tapper-presses-blinken-to-pick-a-side-has-the-u-s-seen-evidence-that-russia-is-committing-war-crimes”>noted</a> that Ukrainian officials had been sounding the alarm for days, claiming that Russian President Vladimir Putin was directing Russian occupation forces in Ukraine to carry out brutal attacks against civilians and had authorized the use of illegal weapons. Most recently, the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv had tweeted a statement calling Russia’s attack on Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine’s largest nuclear power plant, a war crime.
But they quickly retracted, in a sense, ad demanded that this clearly public information not be retweeted. It was confusing, to say the least!
“<span class=”css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0″>It is a war crime to attack a nuclear power plant. Putin’s shelling of Europe’s largest nuclear plant takes his reign of terror one step further. </span><span class=”r-18u37iz”>#TheHague</span> <span class=”r-18u37iz”>#Zaporizhzhia</span> <span class=”r-18u37iz”>#StandwithUkraine.”</span>
It is a war crime to attack a nuclear power plant. Putin's shelling of Europe's largest nuclear plant takes his reign of terror one step further. #TheHague #Zaporizhzhia #StandwithUkraine
— U.S. Embassy Kyiv (@USEmbassyKyiv) March 4, 2022
Tapper <a href=”https://www.dailywire.com/news/jake-tapper-presses-blinken-to-pick-a-side-has-the-u-s-seen-evidence-that-russia-is-committing-war-crimes”>pressed</a> Blinken on what he said was a “confusing step” and asked what it meant going forward.
“The State Department told other embassies around the world to not retweet it which is a confusing step. Has the U.S. seen evidence that Russia is committing war crimes or not?” he asked.
“We’ve seen very credible reports of deliberate attacks on civilians, which would constitute a war crime. We’ve seen very credible reports about the use of certain weapons,” Blinken replied. “What we’re doing right now is documenting all this, putting it all together, looking at it and making sure that as people and the appropriate organizations and institutions investigate whether war crimes have been or are being committed, that we can support whatever they’re doing.”
"We've seen very credible reports of deliberate attacks on civilians…"
Secretary of State Antony Blinken tells CNN's @jaketapper the US is investigating and documenting reports of Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians that could constitute war crimes. #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/A4RJsE5hms
— CNN (@CNN) March 6, 2022
At this point, I don’t think anyone knows what the heck the administration is doing. I have an idea. A serious conflict of interest is being ignored here.
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