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Senator Rips Trump for Letting Putin Walk All Over Him—Again
President Donald Trump has been flamed live on air for letting Vladimir Putin ignore him over Ukraine seven times by a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Senator Jeanne Shaheen, the ranking member of the committee, put Trump to the sword on CNN, telling host John Berman...
President Donald Trump has been flamed live on air for letting Vladimir Putin ignore him over Ukraine seven times by a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Senator Jeanne Shaheen, the ranking member of the committee, put Trump to the sword on CNN, telling host John Berman that Putin wouldn’t respond to anything other than “strength and pressure.”
Shaheen’s hawkish rhetoric stems from a pair of fruitless summits, first with Putin and then with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the sum of which currently amounts to nil in the quest for a ceasefire.
Asked by Berman what she believed was the “current status” in the peace process, the veteran Democrat Senator for New Hampshire said: “President Trump has now allowed Vladimir Putin to blow through seven deadlines that he has set since he came into office. And he’s continuing to allow Vladimir Putin to play him.”
Putin traveled to the U.S. in August, where Trump rolled out the red carpet, welcoming him to Anchorage. Trump left the meeting, telling gathered reporters, “We had an extremely productive meeting, many points were agreed to, and there are just a very few things left.” Five days later, Russia launched 574 drones and 40 missiles at Ukraine, one of the heaviest bombardments in weeks.
Meanwhile, Trump’s original 50-day ceasefire deadline expired Tuesday.
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