Fox News Host Fillets Trump Adviser Over Shocking Comments Trump ‘Has Gotten Absolutely Hammered’ Over

Fox News host Howie Kurtz grilled Trump senior adviser Jason Miller for a solid four minutes over President Donald Trump’s shocking statements about the war in Ukraine.

Trump and his top officials have been stirring controversy with their chatter about the war in Ukraine. Trump flew into a rage at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Wednesday and referred to him as “a dictator” after Zelensky made public comments about “misinformation” that Trump has been spreading. He also accused Zelensky of starting the war — which drew blistering bipartisan dissent.

On this week’s edition of Fox News Channel’s MediaBuzz, Kurtz sank his teeth into the criticism as he interviewed Miller and wouldn’t let go, repeatedly pushing him to address the false claim that Zelensky started the war:

HOWIE KURTZ: Joining me now here in Washington, Jason Miller, senior adviser to the Trump transition team.

President, as you know, has gotten absolutely hammered not just by liberal journalists, but by the National Review and the Wall Street Journal editorial page for blaming Russia for the invasion, blaming Ukraine, excuse me, for the invasion of Russia.

How can you defend that? When the Kremlin sent troops and missiles into a sovereign country with the aim of wiping it off the map?

JASON MILLER: So let’s go and take a step back for a moment. I don’t think necessarily the National Review is emblematic of what regular Americans are thinking. Here’s the bottom line. We have had so many people who’ve been killed or wounded in this conflict with Ukraine and Russia that we have to stop the killing. In fact, Howie did you know that over a million people have either been killed or wounded in this conflict in Ukraine?

HOWIE KURTZ: We all want to end the war.

JASON MILLER: Ukraine is in such bad shape right now that the average age of their soldier is over 43 years old. You go and take the tens, if not hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian troops have been killed. +.

You take the between 800,000 and 1 million Ukrainian women who’ve left the country along with children? You’re going to have literally a lost generation.

What President Trump has done is he has forced the sides to the table to actually stop the killing and come up with a peace deal. For the last several years, Joe Biden has sat there completely incompetent, doing nothing but fueling and funding more killing and more death. We should be trying to stop the killing, not trying to keep it going.

HOWIE KURTZ: You’re making it argument to end the war, which I think a lot of people, most people would agree with.

I’m talking about the beginning of the war. The New York Post cover. We can put it up, says “President Trump. This is a dictator.”.

With the big picture of Putin. So the fact checkers say, look, Zelensky is not a dictator. As President Trump said, wartime leaders like Winston Churchill have postponed elections during wars. He’s at 57% in the latest poll, not 4%. So how do you respond to that?

JASON MILLER: Well, simple. I’d on a personal end even say that Joe Biden has a lot of blame to go with this.

Number one, when we saw the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, we completely lost all sense of deterrence as a nation, within also, with Joe Biden continually pushing for EU expansion, pushing for NATO expansion. Of course they’re heading toward conflict.

But let’s go and put that aside. The fact of the matter is we have war. We have conflict that’s happening right now. In how we talk so often about the the casualties, exactly how many people have been hurt. Let’s also not forget how much American money has been spent. Over hundreds of billions of dollars.

HOWIE KURTZ: And I understand that debate.

JASON MILLER: And we have to stop that. We can’t go on. And in fact, President Trump had a really interesting point yesterday. I’m not sure if many folks caught on to it. In his speech at CPAC, where he talked about his legacy and what he thinks that ultimately will be. And he said that he hopes that his legacy really will be as a peacemaker.

Keep in mind that Putin invaded Ukraine under Obama. Putin invaded Ukraine under Biden. He didn’t dare do it against President Trump. Not only did President Trump have no new wars. He’s going to stop the killing in Ukraine. He’s already gotten to a peace deal into a cease fire in the Middle East. I think we can get that. But we have to stop the killing, Howie.

HOWIE KURTZ: Conservative Mark Levin, who is a Fox News host, says this is sick. Ukraine didn’t start this war. What were they supposed to do, roll over and play dead? They’re just trying to survive.

So you very skillfully have not answered the direct question, which is why is President Trump blaming Zelensky for the beginning of the war?

JASON MILLER: Well, Zelensky has a lot of blame. I think that would go to this as well. But again, how you want to look in the past, I want to look into the future, what we do to save lives. And that’s exactly what President Trump is doing.

And the fact of the matter is, Zelensky right now is trying to hang on to power. Everybody in Washington, everybody in Brussels is trapped in this, this essentially this circular firing squad of trying to figure out how do we go and keep the conflict, how do we keep it going?

President Trump is the only one saying, let’s stop the killing, let’s stop the wasteful spending. Let’s go and try to help Ukraine. And by the way, we had Scott Bessent on with Maria Bartiromo this past hour talking about the minerals deal that I think the West is going to be able to come to you, which, by the way, is genius. Finally, we’re actually going to have someone pay back some of the money, some of the blood and treasure that we’ve sent.

HOWIE KURTZ: Most people, most people don’t want to keep the war going.

Watch above via Fox News Channel’s MediaBuzz.