Independent US Sen. Bernie Sanders has dismissed Ukrainian President Voldy Zelensky as a “terrifying” claim that Ukrainian President Voldy Zelensky might have to resign after a diplomatic meltdown in his oval office with Donald Trump.
Sanders’ comments served as a retort to encourage accommodation comments from his fellow Senator Lindsey Graham, who was declared by Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson in an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday morning.
“I think that’s a scary proposition,” Sanders told NBC’s Kristen Welker in an interview. “Zelensky is the leader of the country and is trying to defend democracy from the authoritarian dictator (Vladimir) Putin,” said the Russian dictator who invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
“I think it’s embarrassing to millions of Americans. I feel embarrassed that there’s a US president who says Ukraine has started a war. “He has that exactly behind.
“The Ukrainians have lost tens of thousands of soldiers. Their cities are being bombed as we speak. Our job is to preserve the 250-year tradition of us being the world’s Democratic leaders, not to turn our backs on a struggling country trying to do the right thing.”
Comments from Johnson came after Zelensky’s controversial meeting with Trump and J.D. Vance at the White House on Friday. As part of a contract with the US involving Ukrainian minerals, Zelensky had sought security from the US as Ukraine defended its Russian invasion. This led the US vice president to accus Zelensky of not fully grateful for US aid. And the US president urged Zelensky to ask him to leave the White House without signing a mineral contract.
Trump is not the first US president to accuse U.S. military aid during the Ukrainian war.
In October 2022, citing four sources familiar with the exchange, NBC News reported that President Joe Biden had lost his temper on a call with Zelenskyy. He told Zelenskyy that he had given another $1 billion in Ukrainian support that Zelenskyy responded by listing the additional assistance he needed.
NBC reported that Zelenskyy issued a statement praised the United States after his call with Biden. And in a Twitter/X post on Saturday, Zelenskyy thanked the US and Trump for “all support… during the last three years of full-scale invasion.”
Nevertheless, this ABC Sunday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused Friday’s talks of “containing themselves” in an attempt to try “the Ukrainian race on all issues.”
“I hope this all resets,” Rubio said.
Meanwhile, when he met the press on Sunday, Johnson told host Kristen Welker that he had to “change something” with Zelensky.
“He needs to come to his senses and return to the table with gratitude or someone else has to lead the country to do that,” Johnson said.
Johnson argued that Zelensky should be grateful and grateful to the United States at the conference, and as part of the peace agreement, promoting Ukraine’s US mineral rights is a “win for everyone,” giving the US minerals that it needs and the level of security for Ukraine.
Faced with the CBS nation, Johnson Republican Rep. Mike Turner added, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner: “We are a scientist in the country.
Turner also said, “(Zelenskyy) must not have a prerequisite for this prerequisite, but this hasn’t come.”
The derailed meeting sparked Procrane protests across the United States. European leaders, along with the prime ministers of Canada, Australia and New Zealand, have posted messages of support for Ukraine.
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“For three years, Ukrainians have fought with courage and resilience. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wrote in X after the White House meeting, their battle for democracy, freedom and sovereignty is an important battle for all of us.” “Canada continues to stand with Ukrainians and Ukrainians to achieve just and lasting peace.”
Only 4% of Americans say they support Russia in the Ukrainian invasion, according to results from a CBS poll released on Sunday.
In particular, however, only the majority of Americans say they support Ukraine: 52%. And the large minority (44%) said they have no support from either Russia or Ukraine.
Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly faced the people on Sunday and said he was “crowded” and “bullyed” in an oval office on Friday during “a sad day for our country.”
“It was a diplomatic trash can,” Kelly said.
Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski was a Republican US senator who denounced the Trump administration during a meeting with Zelensky on Friday.
In X’s post, she called the meeting a “shocking conversation.”
“I know that foreign policy is not for the faint of heart, but for now it’s disgusting to my stomach that the administration appears to be releasing Putin from our allies.
Republican U.S. Sen. James Lankford said he had opposed the call for Zelensky to resign.
“I am not interested in calling for other world leaders to resign,” Lankford told Meet the Press. “Frankly, I think it’s going to spiral in Ukraine now.”
