Robert—run this Lawyer for Ukrainian Orthodox Church: Biden, USAID Financed Church’s Destruction

Feb. 20, 2025 (EIRNS)—Robert Amsterdam, a Canadian-American lawyer who represents the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, told the Tucker Carlson Show in an interview aired Feb. 19 that the U.S. is directly responsible for the Ukrainian suppression of the church.

As reported in RT, Amsterdam charged that the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, the Kiev regime’s anti-Russian alternative Orthodox Church, set up to replace the allegedly Russian-controlled Ukrainian Orthodox Church, was created “with the active connivance of the United States government.” He claimed the money was likely funneled through the State Department’s U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) or a similar agency, but the entire endeavor was “kind of a CIA operation.”

“You have our State Department violating our Constitution, openly engaging in the destruction of religious freedom in a foreign country, doing things absolutely illegal under our Constitution, all in establishing religion, yes, all in the name of opposing Russian President Vladimir Putin," said Amsterdam.

Anderson further claimed that the Kiev regime had contracted with a U.S. PR firm to silence dissent regarding the crackdown, casting critics as Russian sympathizers, and enabling the Ukrainian leader to operate with near-impunity under the previous Biden administration. Amsterdam said, “We have this crazy adopted authoritarianism now, where we as a country of institutions have made a king out of [NATO's Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr] Zelenskyy,” who is destroying all independent institutions in Ukraine.