WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday blasted Moscow’s assault on Ukraine as “Biden’s war” — distancing himself from the battle as Russian President Vladimir Putin drags out peace negotiations.
“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,” the president posted on Fact Social.
“President Putin, and everyone else, respected your President! I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS WAR, BUT AM WORKING DILIGENTLY TO GET THE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION TO STOP.”
It’s been practically two months since Particular Presidential Envoy Steve WItkoff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and nationwide safety adviser Mike Waltz held the primary talks with Moscow in Riyadh as a part of Trump’s initiative to finish the conflict, as he regularly promised on the 2024 marketing campaign path.
There have since been a number of conferences with each Moscow and Kyiv, albeit individually, which have resulted in Ukraine agreeing to Trump’s proposed full cease-fire.
Nevertheless, Russia continues to play hardball, most not too long ago killing 32 civilians attending Palm Sunday providers in Sumy, Ukraine.
Trump, who has repeatedly known as for Russia to “stop the killing” in Ukraine, known as the Sumy strikes “a horrible thing” whereas chatting with reporters aboard Air Pressure One on Sunday.
In his submit on Monday, Trump blamed his predecessor and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for “allowing this travesty to begin,” claiming “there were so many ways of preventing it from ever starting,” with out giving examples.
“But that is the past,” the president acknowledged. “Now we have to get it to STOP, AND FAST. SO SAD!”
His newest feedback on the Ukraine conflict come after an earlier submit raging in opposition to a 60 Minutes interview with Zelensky that aired Sunday, throughout which the Ukrainian chief expressed fear that the US is not “our strategic strong partner.”
“I don’t doubt that the people of America are with us, but in a long war, many details are forgotten. In Europe, everyone fears that the United States may drift away from Europe,” he mentioned. “I think without the United States, we will suffer great losses, human and territorial so I wouldn’t like to consider that.”
“But this is our destiny, our land, our life, one way or another, we will end this war.”
Trump known as the episode, which additionally featured a narrative on opposition to the US in Greenland, “FAKE News.”
“I just finished watching 60 Minutes, the FAKE News Show that was scandalously responsible for REMOVING a terrible and incompetently delivered answer, by failed Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris, to an interview on 60 Minutes, just prior to Election Day, and putting in its place a completely different answer to a completely different question, in order to make Kamala look ‘coherent,’” he mentioned, referencing an edited interview with the previous vp forward of the 2024 presidential election.
“Now tonight, with two separate but highly inaccurate stories about “TRUMP,” they’re at it once more. The individuals at CBS Pretend Information simply don’t get it!”
