Trump is right on Ukraine
[URL]https://thehill.com/opinion/5198022-ukraine-conflict-disinformation/[/URL]
Good article. Sentiment is changing on the great clusterfuck and probably due to all the independent news outlets.
My goodness, they still don't get it.
The Dems still don't understand Trump and his minions.
Sigh.
[QUOTE]Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA), who sits on the House Armed Services Committee, didn't try to hide his dismay Monday when asked about a top U.S. official echoing Vladimir Putin's talking Points on Ukraine.
Steve Witkoff, U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, told Fox News over the weekend that some parts of Ukraine are "Russian territory."
Witkoff also appeared on former Fox News host Tucker Carlson's podcast and CNN's Kate Bolduan played a clip of Witkoff telling Carlson that "There have been referendums where the overwhelming majority of the people have indicated that they want to be under Russian rule."
Moulton reacted with total disbelief.
"It's just insane, and I think we've known for a while that Tucker Carlson is on the Kremlin's side and has been for some time, but now the lead negotiator for the United States is taking the Tucker Carlson/Putin position on these negotiations. He's literally negotiating for the other side, negotiating for the aggressor, negotiating for the violator of international law. And what does he say? He says, 'Oh, I take Putin at his word.' Is this guy a total idiot? Is he just completely nave?"
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Moulton then suggested that Witkoff was being "paid off by Russia."
Bolduan interjected, "I get your point, but there's no evidence that that has been presented, that there's any payoff that has actually been happening to Steve Witkoff."
"I'm not I'm not saying there's any evidence," Moulton acknowledged. "I'm just trying to understand why on earth would a U.S. negotiator takes our adversary's side? I mean, Reagan must be rolling over in his grave here. The Republican Party has become subservient to Russia."
Boulduan read a portion of a new Time Magazine interview with Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky that read, "I believe Russia has managed to influence some people on the White House Team through information. Their signal to Americans was that Ukraine doesn't want to end the war and something should be done to force them.
Moulton claimed that Zelenskyy was trying to introduce some reality "that the trump Team apparently can't figure out because Vadimir Putin is a KGB agent who is playing Trump like a violin."[/QUOTE]I respectfully disagree.
No, he's not "naive".
Did Russia bribe him? Maybe, he's been with the Master for decades after all.
But they didn't have to.
People who've chosen to serve Trump do not have a backbone. That's why they've been selected. They can't afford a backbone. The backbone would get them in trouble in a New York minute. Even long-term friends.
All Trump had to say was this:
[QUOTE]Hey Steve, you gotta say something nice about Vladimir. I have Tucker Carlson somewhere in my back pocket -- wait, where is -- ah, here he is. Hey Tucker, can you do a solid to my bud Steve here. He needs to talk to you about Russia Russia Russia. And also about that bitchy Ukraine too.[/QUOTE]That's all it took and even less maybe.