Criticism for President Donald Trump over standing firm against a defiant Volodymyr Zelenskyy is “ridiculous” and “hypocritical pearl-clutching,” according to national security adviser Mike Waltz.
“The No. 1 goal of the failed Ukraine mineral deal Zelenskyy balked at in the name of security guarantees was to get to Russian President Vladimir Putin to end his war on Ukraine, and it was no “ambush,” Waltz told Sunday’s CNN “State of the Union.”
“The president is trying to end this war: He campaigned on it; he was elected on it; and that’s going to take tough diplomacy,” Waltz told CNN’s Dana Bash. “Who would criticize us? But you have members of Democrats that are criticizing us for dealing with the Russians, the same Democrats that had no problem dealing with the murderous Iranian regime in an Iran deal that was horrific and used the Russians as intermediaries.
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