Washington: If you feel the need to keep assuring people of something, that’s probably a sign it’s not true. So, when US President Donald Trump posts “the Republican Party has never been so UNITED AS IT iS RIGHT NOW”, as he did on Monday (AEDT), it does make you wonder.

Trump said ructions in the Republican Party were essentially limited to a trio of malcontents – Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has flagged her resignation, Kentucky agitator Thomas Massie and libertarian senator Rand Paul – as well as “a couple of other lowlifes”.

But that’s not entirely accurate. In the past few days, many Republicans were aghast at the proposed deal being offered by the Trump administration to Ukraine to end the war with Russia. They were not shy to condemn it.

Donald Trump says ructions in the Republican Party are essentially limited to a trio of malcontents.Credit: Bloomberg

Former Senate leader Mitch McConnell labelled it appeasement and a “capitulation” to Moscow. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana senator, said it weakened the United States. Brian Fitzpatrick, a Republican congressman from Pennsylvania, called it “garbage” and “nothing more than Russia’s absurd wish........

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