GOP presidential candidate Will Hurd knocked Republican rivals who “want to kiss the butt” of Russian President Vladimir Putin in “frank” remarks to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.
The former Texas congressman, who did not appear at the first Republican presidential debate, weighed in on Putin after Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was listed as a passenger aboard a jet that crashed and killed 10 people in Russia.
“A person has a one-in-11 million chance of dying in a plane crash. And now, I don’t have any of the intelligence or insights into what happened but considering that Prigozhin tried to create a mutiny two months ago, I don’t think this was luck,” said Hurd of the mercenary group head who led a brief rebellion in the country in June.
He went on to blame Putin — who characterized the Prigozhin-led rebellion as a “stab in the back” — for the crash before ripping fellow candidates prior to the debate on Wednesday.
“I think this was something that Vladimir…
