Statement·other·said 2024-06-16
“The weapons that Ukraine used in the early days of this war to fend off the Russian invasion are the weapons that Donald Trump sent, that Barack Obama and Joe Biden had refused to send.”
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Mixedby PolitiFact
2024-07-02Reasoning
Obama did reject Ukraine's 2014 request for Javelins, which Trump later approved in 2018. But Cotton omits that the Biden administration provided extensive military aid to Ukraine before and after Russia's 2022 invasion, including hundreds of millions in antiarmor weapons.
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