Mike Turner: GOP Members Are Running On Kremlin Energy!

Ohio Republican Mike Turner says his party has too much time on their hands to believe facts.

The infighting.

The winners and losers of 2024.

Ohio Republican calls out his conference members for their neverending usage of Russian propaganda in their shameless quest to impeach President Joe Biden.

The Russian propaganda includes:

• Republicans and their refusal to allocate additional military funding for Ukraine.
• Claiming that NATO is the reason for Russia's aggression towards the West.
• Believing Ukraine should give up territory to ease tension with Russia.
• Believing that Federation president Vladimir Putin is strong on the world stage and Biden is weak.
• Believing that Steele Dossier was the reason for a federal investigation into former president Donald J. Trump and his allies.
• Believing that Michael Flynn and George Papadopoulos were not involved in Russian propaganda.
• Claiming honey traps Natalia Veselnitskaya and Maria Butina were not involved in a Russian influence campaign.
• Believing that Julian Assange was rightful in releasing stolen DNC and John Podesta emails.
• Believing that Edward Snowden [granted Russian citizenship] is a patriot for stealing classified documents and releasing them to the public.
• Believing that Rudy Giuliani had obtained the Hunter Biden "laptop" from a Delaware computer shop owned by a legally blind owner.
• Trying to encourage Tara Reade [who fled to Russia] to testify under oath that in 2019 the Department of Justice tried to "silence" her when she made her first allegations on then private citizen Joe Biden and her later allegations on presumptive nominee Biden. Using her claims that President Joe Biden and the FBI are "weaponized" against her.
• Using the murder of Seth Rich to claim that Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee stole information and gave it to Wikileaks. Claiming that Rich knew that the DNC deliberately sabotaged the primary elections against Bernie Sanders and he blew the whistle.
• Using information from "fake journalist" John Solomon and crackpot lawyers Victoria Toensing and Joseph diGenova.
• Believing that Paul Manafort was unfairly attacked by the federal government when he was subjected to the Robert Mueller probe.
• Believing that Alex Jones, Roger Stone, Sean "Softball" Hannity and Tucker Carlson are journalists.
• Using a fake informant named Alexander Smirnov with claims of bribery committed by Biden and son Hunter Biden.
• Pushing for conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as an alternative to Biden.

These are some of the things I've detailed. Republicans have used these allegations and straight up bogus claims they've parroted from X, Meta, Alphabet and ByteDance. The claims come from trolls, the unknown journalist and a here and there blog.

Russia and Israel clearly have a role in election interference in 2024.

Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH), the longtime porker from the Dayton suburb of Centerville went to GOP Sundays to call out the usual insufferables for using Kremlin propaganda.

Turner is a notorious lawmaker for earmarks [pork barrel] projects and adultery.

He is also the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

Turner said Sunday that Russian propaganda has taken hold among some of his House Republican colleagues and is even "being uttered on the House floor."

"We see directly coming from Russia ... communications that are anti-Ukraine and pro-Russia messages, some of which we even hear being uttered on the House floor," Turner, chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union."

Turner was talking about the laziest member of the Insufferable Caucus.

"There are members of Congress today who still incorrectly say that this conflict between Russia and Ukraine is over NATO, which of course it is not," he added.

Turner's office did not immediately respond to NBC News' request for clarification about which members of Congress he was referring to.

His comments come on the heels of remarks House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul made this week about how Russian propaganda has taken root among the GOP.

McCaul, a Texas Republican, told Puck News that he thinks "Russian propaganda has made its way into the United States, unfortunately, and it’s infected a good chunk of my party’s base."

Turner and McCaul each tied Russia and its leader, Vladimir Putin, to other authoritarian leaders, including President Xi Jinping of China and Kim Jong Un, the leader of North Korea.

"[The propaganda] makes it more difficult for us to really see this as an authoritarian versus democracy battle, which is what it is," Turner told CNN, adding, "President Xi of China, Vladimir Putin himself have identified as such."

McCaul described explaining to colleagues that the threat of Russian propaganda is similar to threats made by other U.S. adversaries.

"I have to explain to them what’s at stake, why Ukraine is in our national security interest," he said. "By the way, you don’t like Communist China? Well, guess what? They’re aligned [with Russia], along with the ayatollah [of Iran]. So when you explain it that way, they kind of start understanding it."

The committee chairs' remarks about Russian propaganda came as they spoke about the need for Congress to approve more military aid to Ukraine.

"Ukraine needs our help and assistance now, and this is a very critical time for the U.S. Congress to step up and provide that aid," Turner told CNN.

The House in recent months has stalled on efforts to pass Ukraine aid, with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA)refusing to put an aid package the Senate passed in February that would provide resources to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan on the House floor.

Last week, Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) said on NBC News' "Meet the Press" that he had commitments from Johnson and McCaul that they would allow a bipartisan Ukraine military aid package to advance to a vote.

Rep. French Hill (R-AR) echoed this point on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday morning, saying he believes Johnson will bring Ukraine aid to the floor "immediately after completing the work on [the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] and FISA's extension — that deadline of April 19 makes it a priority for the first few days we're back."

"I believe he's fully committed to bringing it up to the floor immediately thereafter," Hill added.

But Bacon also warned that Johnson could face a vote to oust him from the speakership if he moves forward with Ukraine aid.

On Sunday, Turner downplayed the notion that Johnson's position was at risk over Ukraine aid.

"I don't think he's at any risk," Turner said. "I think that what people have been referring to as the 'chaos caucus,' those individuals who are seeking attention for themselves and trying to stop all of the important work in Congress, are now seen as merely disruptive."

Democrats have signaled that they could join several Republicans in helping to save Johnson's speakership if a motion to vacate, such as the one filed by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) just before the House left for a two-week Easter recess, were brought to a vote.