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Trump said the Ukrainian president should be blamed for failing to make peace with Russia
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (C) walks with US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (R), Democrat from New York, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican from Kentucky, on their way to a bipartisan meeting of Senators at the US Capitol on September 26, 2024, in Washington, DC. (DREW ANGERER/AFP via Getty Images)
Former President Donald Trump is stepping up his criticism of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, claiming that the Ukrainian president “refuses to make a deal” with Moscow some 31 months after the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Republicans in Congress are following Trump’s lead, many now refusing to meet with Zelensky during his visit to Capitol Hill.
House Republicans, rather than offer support for the war-time leader, instead announced this week that they are investigating a trip he made to an ammunition plant in Pennsylvania, claiming that he might have been flown there on the taxpayer’s dime to benefit Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign.
“Those cities are gone, they’re gone, and we continue to give billions of dollars to a man who refused to make a deal, Zelensky. There was no deal that he could have made that wouldn’t have been better than the situation you have right now. You have a country that has been obliterated, not possible to be rebuilt,” Trump said in a campaign speech in Mint Hil
