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If he comes here and grovels to a toddler that needs to be groveled to, like, what is that sending ― what message is that sending to his troops in the trench?”
This was a purposeful ambush. There is no doubt about it. JD Vance is a vice president and shouldn’t even have spoken to Zelensky, a President,
he added in a separate post We should be thanking the Ukrainians for standing in the gap and fighting the Russian horde that’s coming into their country and that would come into NATO next,
Kinzinger told CNN’s Dana Bash Today was very shameful and there’s a reason that every cabinet member under Donald Trump has had to tweet how strong he was today, because they got the memo from the White House that they better come out and support Trump because this is a really bad day for them and they know it.”
Maybe it played well with their base but it’s not going to play well with the American people and that’s where I think Trump needs to pump the brakes a bit,
said McFaul, who pointed to polling showing that most Americans don’t trust Putin You start to perceive that maybe Zelensky doesn't want a peace deal. He says he does, but maybe he doesn't, and that active, open, undermining of efforts to bring about peace is deeply frustrating for everyone who's been involved,
Do you think you can make the argument that he hasn’t said thank you?”
Collins pressed Rubio on Trump and Vance’s claims So what can I say to American people in English, my English is poor, to say all my messages and all my thanks to you,
Zelenskyy told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer during a 2023 interview And we were hoping that that meeting would begin by, ’Thank you for everything you’ve done for us, we wouldn’t be where we are today without you, we wouldn’t even have a chance to negotiate a peace [deal] without the help you gave us.”
So he should have been grateful for that and grateful for what we’re doing now,
All my appreciations from my heart, from the heart of Ukraine, all Ukrainians,
he told former President Joe Biden at the White House in 2022 Thank you for both financial packages you have already provided us —,
said Zelenskyy during his 2022 address to Congress When you start talking about that aggressively – and the president is a deal maker, he made deals his entire life – you’re not going to get people to the table,
Speaking of Zelensky, Rubio said ... he continued You've said that as a secretary of state, you do believe it's important for someone with such global influence as you have to speak with that kind of moral clarity,
This kind of spat, it's not good for both sides,
the Ukrainian president said, underscoring that It’s more than two presidents: [It’s] the historical relations, strong relations, between our people,
What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about?”
For turning this thing into the fiasco for him that it became,
When host Kaitlan Collins asked what Zelensky should apologize for, Rubio responded ... the secretary of state told host Kaitlan Collins We're thankful to Americans for all your support, you did a lot, I'm thankful to President Trump and Congress' bipartisan support,
At this moment, as secretary of state, my job, working for the president, is to deliver peace, to end this conflict and end this war. Ultimately, that is the job of the State Department.”
When additionally pressed by Collins about previously calling Putin a “butcher,” Rubio said
