But she accused the Russian President of exploiting the error by the former Speaker, who had apologized and resigned after the incident, for propaganda purposes.

“We can’t change the fact that he made that mistake. We can, though, all of us decide how effective Vladimir Putin is at weaponizing that mistake,” she said. “And I would really urge all of us to understand that Russian propaganda is real.”

Yes, the thing we did BY MISTAKE supports the claims made by our adversary, BUT its up to all of us to be dismissive of these claims, because they make my Uncles very upset