Former President Donald Trump met with President Volodymyr Zelensky at Trump Tower on Friday, and the two leaders discussed the Russia-Ukraine war.
President Trump before the meeting said He said he and Zelenskiy had “very good relations” and promised to help negotiate an end to the war “very quickly” if he won the election. Trump has repeatedly stated on the campaign trail that he believes the war “would never have happened” if he were still in the White House.
The meeting took place a day after President Zelenskiy met with Vice President Kamala Harris.
“I am proud to support Ukraine, and I will continue to support Ukraine, and I will work to ensure that Ukraine wins this war,” Harris said. said before bilateral talks.
Additionally, Harris argued that the United States must continue to support the war already underway with Ukraine. sent more than $100 billion of taxpayer money To Ukraine. It is not clear how the money helped Ukraine win the war or end the fighting. Harris suggested that the only acceptable outcome of this war would be an unconditional victory for Ukraine, but did not say specifically how that would happen. She also criticized President Trump, without naming him, and claimed that in her view the peace proposal was an “offer of surrender.”
“We're going to solve it. It's a very complicated puzzle, a very complicated puzzle, but we will solve it.”
But the message Trump shared after the meeting was markedly different.
Instead of speaking in vague platitudes, Trump said he “learned a lot” during the meeting and stressed the need for a “fair deal” to end the war.
President Trump: “I don't think it's changed from the standpoint that both sides want to see an end to the situation and a fair deal. It's going to be fair. I think it's going to happen at the right time. I think it will happen.'' .
“If we win, I believe we can get a very fair and actually quite quick deal,” he added, adding that both Zelenskiy and Russian President Vladimir Putin want the war to end. He emphasized that he believed it.
“That's why we want to get a deal that's fair for everyone,” Trump said.
President Trump reiterated, “This is a war that should never have happened. It never should have happened, it never should have happened. It's a shame.” “We will solve it. It's a very complex puzzle, a very complex puzzle, but we will solve it, and people will [will] move on with their lives. Too many people died. ”
President Trump has not disclosed any plans to end the war. He believes that doing so would be a strategic mistake.
Zelensky's visit to the United States this week quickly became controversial after the Pentagon used taxpayer money to take the Ukrainian president to a military factory in Pennsylvania.
republican party blamed Zelensky For essentially acting as a Democratic campaign agent and a House Republican. We have started an investigation. Into the journey.
” [House Oversight] The committee will seek to determine whether the Biden-Harris administration sought to use foreign leaders to benefit Vice President Harris' presidential campaign and, if so, whether it necessarily committed an abuse of power. ” said House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.).
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