Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, previously holding the position from 1999 until 2008. He was also the Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012.
A post shared by Will Hurd (@willhurd)Pretty much everyone agrees that GOP presidential hopeful Will Hurd doesn’t have a chance in hell of winning his party’s nomination in 2024.
But god bless the man for trying.If the 46-year-old former Texas congressman, who bills himself as a “common sense” Republican, didn’t kill his chances earlier in the month when he urged conservatives to focus on defeating Vladimir Putin rather than fighting LGBTQ+ people, then he certainly did this weekend when he called Donald Trump a “loser”, which everyone knows is the worst thing you can possibly call the one-term, twice-impeached, four-time indicted ex-president.Let’s keep the focus on what really matters, defeating our enemies and securing a better future for America.
Join my team and get me on the GOP debate stage in August with a $1 donation today. https://t.co/tMMYO5wtG1 pic.twitter.com/VeMuVNe9NtSpeaking to MSNBC’s Ali Velshi on Sunday, Hurd called out his Republican colleagues for claiming to be about “law and order” while simultaneously saying they would support Trump as the party’s nominee even if he was convicted of any of the nearly 100 charges he’s currently facing. (40 in Florida, 34 in New York, 13 in Georgia, and four in Washington, D.C.)“If the GOP is going to be the party of law and order, then we need to stand up for law and order,” Hurd, a former CIA officer, said. “We have candidates that are saying crazy things and trying to mimic behavior that lost.