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Lol, what. You're right, we all saw what happened. Trump was calling Zelenskiy a "dictator with a 4% approval rating" (it was 52%, now 68%) the week before!
by dralley 2y ago
Lol, what. You're right, we all saw what happened.
Trump was calling Zelenskiy a "dictator with a 4% approval rating" (it was 52%, now 68%) the week before! He and all his cabinet appointees keep equivocating on who started the war. He keeps lying about how much value has been given to Ukraine (it's less than half of the 350b he claims). He went on a tirade about how he and Putin "went through the Russia hoax together". Vance has leaked text messages from months go saying he "won't even take calls from Ukraine".
>“Dude I won’t even take calls from Ukraine,” he told Johnson in October, about three weeks after House Republicans blocked additional aid to help Kyiv repel the Russian invasion. “Two very senior guys reached out to me. The head of their intel. The head of the Air Force. Bitching about F16s.”
Trump was never truly interested in a fair deal. He wants an arrangement that will let him suck up to Putin while quickly claiming success no matter how dogshit the terms are, and Zelenskiy isn't enough of a pushover to give him that.
- Rapzid 2y agoI didn't know about these JD texts, but it checks out. It has seemed to me that: * Trump has a chip on his shoulder over this first impeachment and the Muller investigation * He sees this whole thing as a bother, and Zelensky a nuisance That oval office "mean girls" meeting makes total sense now; both Trump and Vance feel the above. They just want quick credit for a quick end and care about nothing else.