Campaign Update: America's Relationship With Zelenskyy May Be Incurably Toxic

Was it all a setup? Did Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelenskyy come to the Oval Office on Friday with the specific intention of blowing up the relationship with Donald Trump and the United States in order to create the predicate for European nations like the UK, France, and Germany to kick off a third world war?

To listen to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick tell it, it sure sounds that way.

Take a look:

Transcript:

So, we were forty minutes before the cameras came in, and forty five minutes before the meltdown. The fact was Zelinskyy never stopped asking for you know, ‘I will give no concessions, they've got to leave my land, I want reparations of three hundred billion dollars, and I want the United States, give me security guarantees’ while they're at war with Russia.

And that's why the president called it World War Three, gambling with World War. We're not going to give you security guarantees while you're at war with Russia. It's just ridiculous. His requests were ridiculous. They were not reasonable.

The president let it go for a while, you know, was very, he was there to make peace. Our president is there to make peace, as he said, end the death.

And Zelenskyy was not there to make peace. He was there to strike some sort of make -believe bargain that he had in his mind.

And eventually that just ran its course. And Donald Trump said, I can't take this nonsense anymore, and made it crystal clear, he's the peacemaker. And if Zelensky's not interested in peace, then he should go home and think about it.

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