Throughout a contentious assembly on Friday between President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and their visitor, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the assembly ended after Zelenskyy’s disrespectful behavior noticed him faraway from the White Home. President Trump remarked after the assembly, “He [Zelenskyy]is not ready for peace.”
On Monday, SiriusXM’s Megyn Kelly stated on “The Megyn Kelly Present” that the Democrats had “shat throughout” the U.S. mineral take care of Ukraine earlier than the Oval Workplace assembly had even begun.
Kelly particularly known as out Sens. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) for his or her feedback earlier than the assembly had even begun. Kelly questioned if Zelenskyy’s habits was emboldened by their remarks.
“Why? Why would he have dealt with it this fashion? Properly, maybe we want look no additional than the Democratic senators with whom Mr. Zelensky met earlier than he went to the White Home. I imply inside the hour,” Kelly stated.
Kelly shared an X publish from Senator Kelly from earlier than the Oval Workplace assembly, telling the diminutive chief that the American folks have been”behind him on this battle” and that he felt “uncomfortable that this now seems to be kind of a enterprise transaction.”
After I met with President Zelenskyy this morning, I made positive to remind him that the American folks stand towards Russia and with Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/l2DNPgGQap
— Senator Mark Kelly (@SenMarkKelly) February 28, 2025
Kelly mentioned a publish that Murphy put up, additionally previous to the assembly, the place he wrote that Ukraine “is not going to assist a faux peace settlement the place Putin will get all the pieces he needs and there aren’t any safety preparations.”
Included within the publish was an image of Murphy, Zelenskyy, and different officers.
Simply completed a gathering with President Zelensky right here in Washington. He confirmed that the Ukrainian folks is not going to assist a faux peace settlement the place Putin will get all the pieces he needs and there aren’t any safety preparations for Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/eaCePJ4UZr
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) February 28, 2025
Kelly stated, “You see what he did?”
“His publish accompanied an image of Zelenskyy at a convention desk with ‘Oh, who’s that throughout from him? It’s Senator Murphy, who’s proper throughout from him.’ This was inside one hour of Zelenskyy’s White Home assembly.”
She continued, “The Democrats bashed the two-phase deal Trump was arranging of 1, a monetary settlement, after which, two, a ceasefire deal as, ‘A faux peace settlement with no safety preparations to Mr. Zelensky’ proper earlier than he went to the White Home. ‘It’s faux. There’s no safety preparations. It’s a enterprise deal. I’m uncomfortable with it. I would like assurances.’”
“I assume, in Chris Murphy’s case, that the folks that you just’re not going to signal it.”
Through the assembly, when Zelenskyy criticized the U.S. for not engaged on stopping Russia, President Trump retaliated, warning Zelenskyy that he was “playing” with World Battle III and hundreds of thousands of lives. He additionally reminded him that his nation has already acquired billions of {dollars} in support courtesy of U.S. taxpayers.
Kelly shared, “Then he [Zelenskyy] went to the White Home to signal what was clearly part one. No, it wasn’t the last word ceasefire. It wasn’t the safety association deal. It was the primary a part of it, which was the minerals deal. Which is the factor that Trump has been saying all alongside shall be, in essence, a type of U.S. safety, as a result of if we’re investing a whole lot of billions of {dollars} making an attempt to extract these uncooked earth supplies from Ukraine, his principle is that Vladimir Putin is not going to mess with Ukraine.”
“He’ll be messing with our pursuits. Then, in the case of boots on the bottom, the Europeans are going to talk to that in part two of this deal.”
“Nevertheless it was shat throughout by Chris Murphy and others … The Democrats, now that it devolved to a struggle, have reverted to their tried and true accusation that Trump is not more than Putin’s puppet, that this entire factor was an ambush by Trump of Zelenskyy as a result of he needs to do the bidding of Vladimir Putin.”
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