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Every time I have spoken with him, I am struck by his commitment to peace,
He needs to make Trump think that his success rests on not giving in to Putin, because if he does he will himself seem weak,
Trump gets bored very easily,
said one well-placed Whitehall source with knowledge of the president’s attention span Take everything Trump says truthfully, but not literally.”
Speaking to Sky News on Thursday about Trump’s statement that Zelenskyy was a dictator, Farage said When May first went to see Trump, she was told she had to congratulate him on lots of things,
You should have never started it [the conflict], ... OK, he did. If you’re happy.”
When, however, it was put to Farage that Trump had told Zelenskyy ... Farage then replied It is our role to be their voice in parliament, ... to say that Trump is a narcissist who is not to be trusted.”
Off the battlefield, we will work with the U.S. and European partners to achieve a sustainable, just peace, and in doing so, remaining clear that there can be nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine,
This is also the time to turn the screws on Putin’s Russia.”
We are getting our money back because it is not fair. I think we are pretty close to a deal — we better be close to a deal.”
Last night he told the CPAC conference in Washington I don’t think he’s very important to be at meetings, to be honest with you. When Zelenskyy said: ‘Oh, he wasn’t invited to a meeting,’ I mean, it wasn’t a priority because he did such a bad job in negotiating so far.”
After a week of extraordinary anti-Zelenskyy and pro-Russian rhetoric from Trump and his team, the US president issued another dismissive assault on Zelenskyy’s leadership and relevance to a peace deal on Friday, saying They shouldn’t have let him [Putin] attack,
They haven't done anything. Macron is a friend of mine, and I've met with the Prime Minister and he's a very nice guy (but) nobody's done anything,
he told a Fox News podcast released Friday I think we're all astonished and deeply alarmed, and if the British Prime Minister doesn't reflect that, he's not reflecting the views of the British people."
Handling it correctly doesn't mean following every twist and turn of every comment, but is focusing on what will actually happen as well as what was said,
he said at a fringe event at the Scottish Labour conference in Glasgow on Friday Macron will be there representing the European Union. Our role is slightly different – we want to play a bridging role between the US and Europe."
Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a country left.”
The US president has wrongly accused Ukraine of having started the war, and warned this week in a lengthy social media post We want to focus on the future rather than relitigating any of the disputes there have been in recent days. If the president asks our view then we will give it, in line with statements we have made. But it is always better to focus on the future rather than trying to go over arguments of the past.”
One British official said They didn’t do anything either [to end the war]. The war’s going on, no meetings with Russia, no nothing.”
Asked about next week’s visits by French president Emmanuel Macron and Sir Keir to Washington, Mr Trump told Fox News [Trump] is the single most powerful individual in the world. We’ve got to work round that. And I should think the prime minister and the foreign secretary understand that they’ve got to work around that
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