Trump Surrogate Takes Pro-Putin Position That Russia Did Not Seize Crimea

On Sunday's ABC's telecast of "This Week", covered by C&L yesterday, Donald Trump told host George Stephanopoulos that Russia,"[Putin]'s not going to go into Ukraine. Just so you understand, he's not going to go into Ukraine."

Facts are a pesky thing and they say otherwise and the ABC host quickly corrected Trump by saying, "Well, he's already there, isn't he?"

Trump revised his erroneous statement and said, "Okay-- well, he's there in a certain way."

Putin is either in Crimea or he's not and reality says he is.

However, that didn't stop an official Trump surrogate, Boris Epshteyn from repeating the same lie that Donald Trump uttered when he said this on CNN last night.

“Again, Russia did not seize Crimea. We could talk about the conflict that happened between the Ukraine and Crimea, it’s an ongoing conflict, but there's no seizure by Russia. That is an incorrect statement, characterization of what happened."

Ryan Lizza tried to push back on his bogus assertion, but because time was short, the host didn't give him the opportunity to respond.

The New Yorker's Lizza then took to twitter to correct the record.

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