As also Oval disassembly office According to President Trump and Ukrainian President Valodimir Zelensky, Russian President Vladimir Putin would have been encouraged, according to Lieutenant General McMaster, who served as Mr. Trump's national security advisor during his first administration.
The United States imposed sanctions on Russia and assisted Ukraine after the war began, but last month Mr. Trump He turned his American politics in his head. He opened peace talks with Russia, which occupies 20% of Ukraine during the bombing of the rest and did not invite Ukraine. Then on Friday he burned Zelensky during an explosive oval office.
“Vladimir Putin can't be happier,” McMaster who is a CBS News and the author “In the war with myself: my service excursion to the White House Trumphe said. “Because what he sees is all the pressure on Zelenskyy, all the pressure on Ukraine and no pressure on it.”
Trump and Russia
During the meeting on Friday, the Oval Office with Zelensky, Mr. Trump revealed something common with the Russian president. Mr. Trump complained that he and Putin slander for years that Russia had assisted Mr. Trump, saying that the US president has connected with his democratic opponents.
“Putin survived a lot with me. He went through the false hunt for witches where they used it and Russia, Russia,” Mr. Trump said.
McMaster who was suppress Mr. Trump said in 2018 that Putin was manipulated by many world leaders, including the US chief commander.
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“He turns to the feeling of President Trump's units, yes? This, you know,” Donald, you know how I know, you are so unfair, “McMaster said.
The president, said McMaster, plays.
“And he is played as other presidents played, like other leaders, through the same book by Putin,” said McMaster.
Checking the Facts of President Trump on Ukraine
Mr. Trump, who boasted that only he could end the war quickly, has repeatedly made false claims against Ukraine. Last month he suggested that Ukraine is responsible To invade Russia, saying that “you should never start it.”
Ukraine did not start the war. The struggle broke out just over three years ago with Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine.
The president also said the US had given $ 350 billion to Ukraine. This is 122 billion dollars, reports As an institute Data.
He too Disappeared after zelenskyy.
“The dictator without elections, Zelenskyy is better to move quickly, or he will not have a country,” Mr. Trump said on February 19 in a social position.
Zelensky is not a dictator. It was selected in 2019. There was no vote from the war.
In recent weeks, McMaster has appealed to some claims by Mr. Trump about Zelensky and Ukraine.
“Well, President Trump, as we all know, tends to say other people. Sometimes it shakes the situation,” he said.
Changing US relations with Ukraine
Mr. Trump also does not always think that his words could hurt his agenda or how they could be taken abroad, McMaster said.
“The war is really a will of will, and I think you see this Donald Trump, which gives a number of bumps to the Ukrainians in a way that you can influence, you know, their will continue to fight,” said McMurus.
According to McMaster, Ukraine's allies were probably embarrassed by the meeting.
“They think you know,” How can President Trump can mention the Ukrainian leader, while he says good things about Vladimir Putin? “
Immediately after fighting the oval office, many Republicans rallied around the president. On the X Senator -Republican Lindsey Graham from South Carolina said America was “disrespectful” during an oval office meeting. He said he was proud of both the president and the vice -president for “first standing for America.”
After the meeting, Secretary of State Mark Rubio laid out on X: “Thank you @potus for putting it for America in a way that no president had never had the courage to do before. Thank you for putting America first. America with you!”
But some legislators on both sides of the passage expressed problems. Republican Representative Don Bacon, General of the Air Force Brigadier, stood near Ukraine when he performed 60 minutes before fighting the oval office.
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“The American leader of the free world. We need power. Nobody can resist Russia and China if we do not enter it. And Ukraine is a victim,” Bacon said. “And I think Putin made it clear that he wanted to restore his old borders, and this is not in our national security interests. So, I am a national security issue, also a moral issue.”
He said that Mr. Trump seems to be worthy of Putin.
“I don't know his motives. Some think he does it for negotiations and maybe he will get a better deal. I don't know,” Bacon said. “All I know is what he says, and when he says Russia is not the invader, it's Ukraine's fault, it's just wrong.”
While other republican lawmakers rushed to condemn President Zelensky after the Oval Office meeting, calling him disrespectful to President Trump, Bacon stood by the President of Ukraine, saying that it was a “bad day for foreign policy in America. Ukraine wants independence.
Senator Angus King, independent of Maine, who appears on armed services and intelligence committees, stated that he was ashamed when the United States recently sided with Russia in the United Nations, joining Russia in Indus vote vs. Ukrainian resolution supported by Europe.
“I always try to think, you know what argument on both sides? I can't come up with a rational argument to pull our support from Ukraine,” King said 60 minutes.
The king likes to note that Europe gave more Ukraine than the US and Ukraine.
“They did dying. All they asked is to send them a means to protect themselves,” he said.
The king called on Congress members to speak.
“Because if we continue to go from Ukraine, it will be the biggest geopolitical mistake that this country has made from World War II,” he said.
