And the daylight’s seldom seen, brave boys

Leaving this right here. The tweet is new; the Reuters story is old. But as Eric Boehlert reminds Twitter this morning, “GOP gets lots of its ideas from Putin.” Good to remember.

The Danish intelligence has accused Russia of forging a 2019 letter to Senator Tom Cotton, claiming to be from Greenland's foreign minister & alleging there'd be an independence referendum.

Tom Cotton claims to have given Trump the idea to buy Greenland.https://t.co/9GDbPfMJq5 pic.twitter.com/15CtcxpkXK
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) January 15, 2022

Reuters (5/31/21).

Sen. Tom Cotton says he floated the idea of buying Greenland to Trump