Rep. Mike Lawler (DN.Y.) advised on Sunday on the release of President Trump and the two leaders over Ukrainian President Voldymi Zelensky.
“Are you totally interrupted by the rhetoric that comes from the Trump administration about Zelensky?” Martha Raddatz of ABC News asked Lawler about “this week.”
“I disagree with the president's rhetoric [Volodymyr] Zelensky. What I say is this isn't – neither side will go back and forth between this public,” Lawler replied.
Trump was shaken up multiple times with the Ukrainian president last week. On Tuesday, he appears to blame the Ukrainian leader on the current war at home, claiming that Zelensky “should have never started it.” In response, Zelensky said the president “lives in this disinformation field.”
“Think about it. The modestly successful comedian Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke to the United States of America to spend $350 billion and it had to start to enter a war that could not be won, but he The US and 'Trump', a war without him, can never be resolved,” Trump said Wednesday on his true social platform.
The president also questioned why the previous administration did not require Europeans to tip for the same amount, given their spending favorably in Ukraine and their intimacy towards the war.
“He refused to vote and was very low in Ukrainian polls. What he was good at was playing Biden 'like a fiddle',” Trump said of the Ukrainian president. “Zelenskyy, the unelected dictator, is better to move fast, or he won't leave the country.”
In an appearance “this week,” Lawler said he believes “President Zelensky needs to work with the administration, particularly in regards to economic cooperation.”
“The US has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to support Ukraine,” he added. “And when this war finally ends, Ukraine will need to invest heavily in order to rebuild.”
Oka reached out to the White House for comments.
