Sep 27, 2024
Trump Rubs Friendship With Putin In Zelenskyy's Face
Former President Donald Trump touted his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin right in front of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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So we have a very good relationship.
And I also have a very good relationship,
as you know, with President Putin.
And I think if we win, I think we're going
to get it resolved very quickly.
Very worried.
I really think we're going to get it.
I hope we have more good relations.
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Oh I see. Yeah.
But Ukraine, you know,
it takes two to tango, you know.
And as the Biden administration continues
to pledge their continuous support
for Ukraine, friction continues to grow
between Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump.
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Zelenskyy arrived in the United States
this week to attend the United Nations
General Assembly and meet with U.S.
Leadership to try to gain more
support in military aid
ahead of the November election.
Zelenskyy met with Biden and Harris
yesterday, where they both pledged
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full support to Ukraine.
But Biden did not give any mention of
greenlighting Zelensky's request for U.S.
Long range missiles
to be fired into Russia.
Instead, Biden said the following the
United States will provide Ukraine
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with the support it needs to win this war,
Biden said in a statement on Thursday
ahead of his white House meeting
with Zelensky.
Biden further pledged to ensure
that all funding so far approved
for Ukraine is disbursed
before he leaves office in January 2025,
and what he described
as a surge in security assistance
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totaling nearly $8 billion.
Trump, who has long been critical of US
aid to Ukraine, wasn't as welcoming,
especially following Zelensky's
New Yorker interview released this week,
where he criticized Trump for how quickly
he thinks he can end the war.
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Now remember, during the presidential
debate earlier this month,
Trump quickly he was criticized for how
quickly he thought he could end the war,
only stating, I just want the war to stop.
My feeling is that Trump doesn't
really know how to stop the war,
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even if he might think he knows how.
With this war, oftentimes the deeper
you look at it, the less you understand.
I've seen many leaders who were convinced
that they knew how to end it tomorrow.
And as they waded deeper into it,
they realized it's not that simple.
Additionally, he also called
Trump's running mate J.D.
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Vance too radical.
His message seems to be
that Ukraine must make a sacrifice.
This brings us back to the question
of cost and who shoulders it.
The idea that the world should end this
war at Ukraine's expense is unacceptable.
But I do not consider this concept
of his a plan in any formal sense.
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This would be an awful idea
if a person were actually
going to carry it out, to make Ukraine
shoulder the costs of stopping the war
by giving up its territories.
Obviously, these jabs at Trump
didn't sit well with him,
and he went on a little bit of a tirade
during a economic speech that took place
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in North Carolina on Wednesday,
two days before the duo's meeting.
Take a look.
The president of Ukraine is in our
country, and he's making little nasty
aspersions toward your favorite president.
Me?
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But take a look at the war
happening right now in Ukraine.
It would have never happened
if I were president.
To start off with, let's say we did settle
and a deal would have been made
with Russia years ago,
three years ago, before it all began.
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And we could have made a deal easily,
could have made it easily.
If we had a president who was intelligent,
we could have made a deal easily.
But what do you have left now?
Right. Three years of horrible fighting.
The country is absolutely obliterated.
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Millions and millions of people,
including all of these great soldiers.
They're dead.
And he continued, saying Zelensky
is the greatest salesman on Earth.
Take a look.
And Biden and Kamala
allowed this to happen
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by feeding Zelensky money and munitions
like no country has ever seen before.
Every time he came to our country,
he'd walk away with $60 billion.
He's probably
the greatest salesman on Earth.
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But now Ukraine is
running out of soldiers.
They're using young children and old men
because their soldiers are dying.
Ukraine is gone. It's not Ukraine anymore.
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You can never replace
those cities and towns.
And you can never replace the dead people.
So many dead people.
Any deal, even the worst deal, would have
been better than what we have right now.
If they made a bad deal.
It would have been much better.
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They would have given up a little bit
and everybody would be living.
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Now notice what Trump didn't talk about.
Notably, Trump did not attack Putin's
reasoning for launching the invasion,
only suggesting Putin would not have
started the war had Trump been in office.
He did say of Putin, he's no angel.
He's no angel. There you go.
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Both sides guys, right?
- Wow.
- Okay.
Well, so he said you cannot
replace the dead people.
Oh, that one's true. Okay, nice.
So if you were wondering what's
going on here, basically Trump is saying
just let Russia keep part of Ukraine,
about 20% of Ukraine.
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And so, look,
it's a very difficult situation.
And I got to be honest with you,
that might be where it lands at the end.
And that is heartbreaking
for the people of Ukraine.
And it's amazing that they defended
the other 80% against one
of the largest militaries in the world.
But Trump is being pretty blithe about it,
like, well, yeah.
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So what? Yeah, you gotta make a deal.
Sometimes you gotta make a bad deal.
I mean, it's a bad deal for Ukraine.
It's a great deal
for my friend Vladimir Putin.
Right.
So this whole idea of I could prevent
the war, it's just, I mean, I know
MAGA believes it, but no one else does.
It's just a stupid braggadocious thing
that a, you know, con man
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like Donald Trump says.
And remember, for Donald Trump,
like we just moved past it.
Jordan said it.
A lot of news outlets say it.
And then we're so used to it
that we don't pause on it.
I'm going to pause.
You know, Zelenskyy made one comment
that Jordan told you guys about
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where it could be interpreted as, hey,
Donald Trump might not know
exactly what he's talking about here,
and JD Vance might be wrong
about ceding territory to Russia.
ET cetera.
Because he is defending his own country
and saying we should
not give up a piece of it.
It is being interpreted
as being slightly rude to Donald Trump.
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So Donald Trump, now, we're all
acknowledge, might change US policy
because someone was slightly rude to him.
You shouldn't get used to that.
That's a really weird, Pathetic,
weak and maniacal thing to do.
If I was a president
and somebody was rude to me, I wouldn't be
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like, no, my feelings are hurt.
That's it.
We're changing our policy on Norway.
I hate them now.
A child would do that.
A pathetic, pathetic loser would do that.
And we've all gotten used to it
because it's Donald Trump
and we all know he's a moron.
I mean, he ran that.
Maybe we shouldn't elect him.
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How about that?
He ran for president because Barack Obama
roasted him at a comedy dinner
at the white House Correspondents Dinner.
So, yeah, you're 100% right about that.
I've never heard Donald Trump say
that anyone was the best in the world
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at anything except himself.
So when he said that Zelensky
is the best salesman in the world.
What? What happened?
Where's the Donald Trump we know and love?
And you know, I think that when you
I've been out with, you know,
these MAGA people, as you mentioned,
and to a person they all say all of them.
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And it's not just 20 people at this point.
It's hundreds and hundreds
who I've spoken to.
They all say that if Trump had been
in office, these wars, both
in the Middle East and Ukraine and Russia
would have would never have happened.
So Joe Biden has caused wars
because Donald Trump would have prevented.
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There's obviously no way to disprove
or prove that to them, but it's it's
because he says these things and they,
you know, they reiterate it and they do.
And so this is Donald Trump to a tee right
here saying that I alone can fix this.
Yeah.
I just quickly want to comment
on what Michael just said there
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because, Donald Trump never explains
how he would prevent the wars.
MAGA never explains
how he would prevent the wars.
So that's why when Rudy Giuliani
was on The Young Turks during the RNC, I
asked him, you know, what does that mean?
How would he prevent the wars?
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And Rudy explained, yeah,
he would threaten them that he was crazy
and might launch an attack against them
and maybe even nuke them.
And that's how he would prevent the war.
So I was like, okay, yeah,
that's what I thought.
I thought like, hey, implicitly,
it's the Nixon Mad Men theory.
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And Rudy literally said
Nixon's madman theory, right?
So MAGA, you think you're anti-war,
but the guy that's in charge
of your movement would threaten to use
nuclear weapons against other countries.
And remember, all you have to do is like,
if you call his bluff,
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then we're all screwed.
And he bluffs nonstop.
So we're in World War three.
The minute somebody hurts his ego
or calls his bluff.
Yeah. Not to.
I'm sorry to jump on what you're saying,
but it's true.
Like you know. Who is he pals with?
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He's pals with Putin and Netanyahu.
I mean, at the debate, he was saying
he's already spoken to people.
I don't know
if that jumped out to you guys.
When I was watching the debate, I thought
that's that's actually breaking protocol.
If he knows that he's going
to resolve Israel and Gaza.
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Does that imply that a former president
has been having clandestine conversations
with with the prime minister,
the president of Israel?
I don't know, but I mean that he
even said that made me think that.
So this is both dangerous
for who he's bedfellows with and also
because he's probably breaking the law.
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I think we can all agree
that Trump is not the peace candidate.
And I think people on the left who thought
that in 2016 were proven foolish.
I do think we should save some room
for analysis and an evaluation
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of how Democrats have operated
over the past couple cycles
and within even looking at the Biden
campaign and the Biden administration.
Right.
So the good pulling out of Afghanistan.
The antiwar right. What did they do?
How have they spent
the past couple of years?
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They've been criticizing it, lamenting it,
blaming him for how haphazard it was,
despite Trump setting that timeline.
Biden simply executed it.
You could argue that some of the details
and some of the management
were improper or insufficient.
Sure.
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But he ended that war
despite every president up until that
point during the war, on terror,
saying they would So I also want
to talk about the war in Ukraine
and the vacuum that Democrats have left
for even conversations around diplomacy.
You might remember a year or two ago,
progressives, I think a year ago,
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progressives sent a letter
or were drafting a letter saying,
hey, there should be some space
for conversations
about a diplomatic end to this conflict.
And they were basically hit with a cudgel
and said, nope, there's no room for that.
How dare you?
How dare you undermine the president?
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And all that has done is prolonged
this suffering for people in Ukraine,
people who had nothing to do
with the conflict at all whatsoever
and are suffering or displaced
as a result and God forbid, killed.
But many of them have been.
There should be room
for diplomacy and there isn't.
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It's going to be difficult because you're
talking about someone like Putin,
but the fact that we can't even have
progressives call for it, or even talk
about it in a letter is chilling to me.
And then you have Zelensky saying,
well, we want us long range missiles
being fired into Russia.
Think about what that looks like.
Think about the consequences.
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If you're really worried
about the well-being of Ukrainians,
that's not going to end well because it's
only going to escalate things.
So there should be more deliberate
and focused conversations
around a diplomatic, diplomatic end.
And sure, to his point, Ukrainians
shouldn't bear the entire brunt of
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the solution or the resolution, of course.
But when he's talking about long
range missiles being fired into Russia,
that is horrifying.
Yeah.
So last two things for me is, look, Donald
Trump does everything for personal gain.
And so if you remember, he got impeached
for asking Zelensky for dirt on Biden.
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He said, basically, I'll change U.S.
Foreign policy depending on whether you
make up some evidence against my
political opponent or you don't.
Right.
So so he doesn't care about the rest of us
and what our foreign policy should be, or
how it would affect the average American.
He only cares about himself.
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And he's demonstrated that
in this particular case,
over and over again with Ukraine.
Now.
But nevertheless, Jordan is also right.
Two things can be right at the same time
and the idea of Ukraine firing
long range missiles at U.S.
Long range missiles
into Russia is a terrible idea.
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So we've got now.
As painful as it is,
and as the the compromises we make
will have to be painful.
And that's what happens
in peace negotiations.
Neither side gets exactly
what it wants it.
Both sides have to sacrifice.
You don't get to make peace
with your friends.
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You have to make peace with your enemies.
But Ukraine firing rockets into Russia
is an epic disaster.
I feel their pain.
I understand why they want to do it, but
it's one thing that they want to do it.
It's another thing if we finance it.
And we shouldn't do that.
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- Michael.
- Last word.
Yeah, I would I would have to agree.
I think it's nuance, too.
And I think these are, you know,
in in solving and resolving war,
hearing that there's a chance
even that US missiles will be employed
probably does change the the calculation
of of the people negotiating
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on the Russian side as well,
which is why
which is why Jordan saying diplomacy.
Right. Let's let's do this diplomacy.
That's what diplomacy is.
It's not always pretty, right?
It's not always gentlemen in coats
and ties, shaking hands with each other.
It's threatening
to and and starting from that point.
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So, you know, maybe there's a reason
for it other than the saber
and maybe it's just saber rattling.
Yeah, I got you.
As long as the diplomacy at the end, saber
rattling, threats or otherwise, actually
gets to a peace deal, which is, of course,
what the whole world is rooting for.
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