Trump Fumes at ‘Crooked Joe Biden’ and Zelensky for ‘Allowing’ Russian Invasion of Ukraine
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President Donald Trump fumed at his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday, accusing them of doing a “horrible job” by “allowing” Russia to invade Ukraine.
Trump has long raised eyebrows with his framing of the brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has killed hundreds of thousands of soldiers, devastated Ukrainian cities, and resulted in millions of Ukrainian refugees.
“The War between Russia and Ukraine is Biden’s war, not mine. I just got here, and for four years during my term, had no problem in preventing it from happening. President [Vladimir] Putin, and everyone else, respected your President!” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform, adding:
I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS WAR, BUT AM WORKING DILIGENTLY TO GET THE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION TO STOP. If the 2020 Presidential Election was not RIGGED, and it was, in so many ways, that horrible War would never have happened. President Zelenskyy and Crooked Joe Biden did an absolutely horrible job in allowing this travesty to begin. There were so many ways of preventing it from ever starting. But that is the past. Now we have to get it to STOP, AND FAST. SO SAD!
Trump’s latest screed followed a 60 Minutes interview with Zelensky that aired on Sunday night and angered the president. Trump posted a lengthy attack on the show and CBS, calling for the network to lose its broadcast license. “They did not one, but TWO, major stories on “TRUMP,” one having to do with Ukraine, which I say is a War that would never have happened if the 2020 Election had not been RIGGED, in other words, if I were President and, the other story was having to do with Greenland, casting our Country, as led by me, falsely, inaccurately, and fraudulently,” wrote Trump in his lengthy post.
During the interview on 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley asked Zelensky to weigh in on Trump’s rhetoric, “When President Trump called you a dictator and said that Ukraine started this war, what did you think?”
“I believe, sadly, Russian narratives are prevailing in the U.S.. How is it possible to witness our losses and our suffering, to understand what the Russians are doing, and to still believe that they are not the aggressors, that they did not start this war? This speaks to the enormous influence of Russia’s information policy on America, on U.S. politics, and U.S. politicians,” Zelensky replied.
Two Russian ballistic missiles hit near a university in Ukraine over the weekend, killing over 30 people. The BBC reported, “At least 34 people have been killed and 117 injured, including 15 children, after a Russian attack on the centre of Sumy, according to Ukrainian authorities.”
