Thats not surprising at all. The GOP aligning itself with Al-Qaeda. I'd say that politics makes for strange bed fellows, but upon further reflection, its been obvious that for a long time, the GOP will get in bed with anybody to help them cheat or steal their way to winning an election.
Kinda begs the question, if Osama Bin Laden wanted Joe Biden to be president, then what does it say about the GOP and...
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/16/putin-trump-win-election-2016-722486https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-wanted-trump-to-win-2016-election-2018-7and for 2020...
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/21/europe/putin-trump-2020-election-analysis-intl/index.htmlhttps://prospect.org/politics/why-putin-wants-trump-to-win/...it looks like even knowing that our adversary wanted this in 2016, the GOP still doesn't mind the helping hand of our adversaries to win an election.