Lauren Boebert Suggests Biden Would ‘Reopen the Keystone XL’ Pipeline If He Was ‘Serious About Strengthening Our Position Against Russia’

U.S. House Rep Lauren Boebert (R-CO) offered her input tonight on the deteriorating situation with Russia, echoing what the 45th President Donald Trump said about it.

In a viral tweet, Boebert declared, “If Joe Biden was serious about strengthening our position against Russia, he’d reopen the Keystone XL and get American energy back up and running!”

If Joe Biden was serious about strengthening our position against Russia, he’d reopen the Keystone XL and get American energy back up and running!

— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) February 23, 2022

In the statement Trump issued earlier, he said, “If properly handled, there was absolutely no reason that the situation currently happening in Ukraine should have happened at all.”

“I know Vladimir Putin very well, and he would have never done during the Trump Administration what he is doing now, no way!” Trump insisted.

Trump then explained, “Russia has become very very rich during the Biden Administration, with oil prices doubling and soon to be tripling and quadrupling.”

“The weak sanctions are insignificant relative to taking over a country and a massive piece of strategically located land. Now it has begun, oil prices are going higher and higher, and Putin is not only getting what he always wanted, but getting, because of the oil and gas surge, richer and richer,” Trump suggested.

Trump concluded, “The U.S. was energy independent under the Trump Administration, an independence that we had never obtained before, and oil prices would have remained low. Now, what a mess our Country is in!”

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“If properly handled, there was absolutely no reason that the situation currently happening in Ukraine should have happened at all. I know Vladimir Putin very well, and he would have never done during the Trump Administration what he is doing… pic.twitter.com/PqnnXbnucg

— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) February 22, 2022

A PolitiFact fact-check following Biden’s executive order suspending the pipeline’s contruction said that it probably wouldn’t boost oil prices for Americans.

While the fact-check didn’t reference Russia or any potential to further conflict in Ukraine, one expert noted that the world can currently produce much more oil than is needed to meet demand.