The Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) tweeted Saturday that its account delayed the deletion of an “unapproved” post on the Ukrainian crisis due to the time difference of an event its hosting in Sydney, Australia.
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The post went up Friday morning and was not taken down until sometime on Saturday.
CPAC said there was a delay in deleting the “unapproved tweet” because of a time difference, as the organization is currently hosting a conference in Australia. CPAC also acknowledged the post had “belittled the plight of the innocent Ukraine people.”
“Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine must be repelled. Putin is a madman that is putting millions of lives at risk with his loose talk of nuclear war,” the conservative organization wrote. “We must oppose Putin, but American taxpayers should not be shouldering the vast majority of the cost.”
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CPAC, one of the world’s largest conservative organizations, held a conference in August that invited former President Trump and far-right leader Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as speakers.
Orbán has been criticized for having closer ties to Putin than other European leaders, while Trump has in the past refused to criticize the Russian leader, particularly after the intelligence community determined that Moscow interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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CPAC backtracks on tweet criticizing US aid to Ukraine https://t.co/qxjnyV8B8V pic.twitter.com/tKfsCaBVss
— The Hill (@thehill) October 2, 2022
Too late, CPAC. We now know where your allegiances lie. And they aren’t with the US.
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