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Former foreign secretary James Cleverly said
Straight up, he’s siding with Putin, ... The President of the United States is siding with Vladimir Putin, period. We know, I know, privately, this is just pissing off Senate Republicans especially. But, Jim, Trump’s hold on this party is a thousand times stronger than it was before November."
The former congressman responded ... adding,
Here I am. I know it’s early in the morning to say something like that, but think about that. And if the American people don’t care about that, that Putin might have something on Trump, that he’s an asset, that he’s a plant, that he’s doing the bidding of Vladimir Putin,
he added, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin
I just wonder, for your party, what it means for the U.S. president to not just overlap with some Russian talking points on the war, but straight up repeat them, repeat the Russian rationale for the invasion, repeat the Russian framing, repeat the Russian description of the elected Ukrainian president. Straight up, repeat them. What does it mean?"
In a previous segment, CNN host Jim Scuitto asked Walsh
Everything he’s done, everything he’s said for 8 or 9 years is exactly what Vladimir Putin would say and want him to do,
claimed Walsh
The American president right now could be a plant, could be a Russian asset. I mean, think about that."
During a discussion on "CNN This Morning" about Trump criticizing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Walsh argued
The idea that Zelensky is going to change the president’s mind by badmouthing him in public media, everyone who knows the president will tell you that is an atrocious way to deal with this administration,
Vance told The Daily Mail
I hope we have more good relations,
Zelensky interjectedI don’t care so much about anything other than I want to stop having millions of people killed, killed,
Trump himself has appeared almost agnostic on the precise contours of the settlement that would end the war ... he said last weekIf you would have had (Biden’s) administration for another year, ... you would have been in World War III and it’s not going to happen now.”
Trump said Wednesday nightBlaming Ukraine for starting the war is some kind of absurdity. As Ukrainians, we cannot understand this,
soldier Ivan Banias told AFP on the freezing streets of Kyiv
I believe that the United States helped (Vladimir) Putin to break out of years of isolation,
he added, in some of his sharpest criticism yet of the new US administrationA Dictator without Elections, Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left,
Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform
I think the Russians want to see the war end... But I think they have the cards a little bit, because they've taken a lot of territory, so they have the cards,
Trump told reporters late WednesdayTogether with America and Europe, peace can be more reliable, and this is our goal,
he addedTo say that Trump is lying to the American public about Zelenskyy, Ukraine, and Putin is the same as affirming that water is wet,
said Anastasiya Shapochkina, director of the geopolitical consultancy Eastern Circles at Sciences Po in ParisUkraine is a democracy, (President Vladimir) Putin's Russia is not,
European Union spokesman Stefan de Keersmaecker said
Australia should stand strong and proud with the people of Ukraine. It’s a democracy, and this is a fight for civilisation. Vladimir Putin is a murderous dictator, and we shouldn’t be giving him an inch,
Mr Dutton said
Do not pay attention to Putin’s facial features,
the huntsman warned during our 2004 expedition northeast of ArchangelIt is simply wrong and dangerous to deny President Zelenskiy democratic legitimacy,
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told news outlet Der Spiegel