Turner forcefully rebuked Greene's false suggestion that Teixeira "told the truth about troops being on the ground in Ukraine," underscoring that the US military is not directly involved in the Ukraine war and has no troops fighting against the Russian invaders.
"If he's brought through this process, and he's found guilty, it will be of espionage, it's of being a traitor to your country," Turner went on to say of Teixeira, 21, an Air National Guardsman who was charged with unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense information and unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents by prosecutors in federal court last week.
"That's not someone to look up to. That is someone who has compromised his country and has certainly compromised our allies. That's not the oath that he took. That's not the job that he took," Turner said.
Words from one of the few decent republicans left.
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