apologist

Last year, after his wife and writing partner, Polly Samson, tweeted that Waters was a “Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy megalomaniac,” Gilmour wrote in a follow-up post, “Every word demonstrably true.”

While he renounced his father's acts of violence across the globe, he has also been accused by some of being an apologist for Osama's actions, referring to him as a "kind" man who had followed a strict religious and moral code.

His X feed is littered with misinformation and posts with a Nazi apologist.

Even in the present day, a Southern apologist for slavery has written a screed for something called the Abbeville Foundation extolling Maistre’s hatred of republics.

Notably, the biggest donor to Gabbard’s political action committee in 2021 was Putin apologist Sharon Tennison.