Posted on 04/19/2024 5:26:17 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Donald Trump doesn’t easily forgive or forget.
As Trump’s Republican allies in the United States Congress block military aid that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Kyiv desperately needs to avoid defeat in its war with invading Russian forces, it’s clear the former U.S. president’s ill will toward Ukraine has deep roots.
It was, after all, a phone call with Zelenskyy that led to Trump’s first impeachment in December 2019, after he was accused of seeking to influence the 2020 election by leaning on the Ukrainian leader to investigate current President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
There’s every sign the country is still preying on his mind. When Congress moved this month to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — legislation governing the surveillance of suspected international adversaries — Trump took to social media to object.
“KILL FISA,” he posted on Truth Social. “IT WAS ILLEGALLY USED AGAINST ME, AND MANY OTHERS.”
That Trump was likely referring to the wiretapping of his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort is unlikely to have gone unnoticed in Ukraine, where officials are watching the U.S. presidential election campaign for signs of what it could mean for their war effort.
As the presumptive Republican candidate, Trump has already triggered fear in Kyiv by boasting he could end the war in 24 hours and musing that he hopes it ends before he is forced to decide whether to give Ukraine to Moscow.
The mention of Manafort, oblique though it was, will only heighten concerns in Ukraine that the U.S. president still holds a grudge against a country he sees as intimately involved with delegitimizing his presidency.
From the first intimations of Russian interference in America’s 2016 presidential campaign, to an investigation by a special prosecutor, to Trump’s 2019 impeachment...
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.eu ...
May the Russians take ever inch of it or render what the don't want uninhabitable.
If PDJT didn’t have the election stolen from him, Ukraine wouldn’t be a problem today.
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Hey, Kazan, your inner Mongol is coming out. It’s been a tough day, hasn’t it, with the news that Ukraine will be getting U.S. aid. Get some sleep; you will feel better in the morning.
Seems pretty black and white to me, RINOs, dems and Zeepers are giving Ukraine untold billions so they can get back payoffs, pay blackmail, launder money, insider trading (military industrial) and the sort of grift that made them rich in only a couple years.
I’m with Trump on almost everything and this Ukraine mess has got to be #1 along with the southern border.
You mean more money from US taxpayers for yet another proxy war with Russia. Don't you get tired of pissing away other people's money?
Ukraine wasn’t invaded when Trump was president.
Veronica, you are an imbecile.
Way too much projection in this article. The author needs to take a long vacation from covering political matters and rediscover their soul.
Given that Ukraine has been able to successively hold off the Russians for over two years I would say that they are putting the money to good use, and not to the alleged corruption that is always claimed.
He’s Trump, he’s Trump, he’s Trump, he’s in your head.
“It doesn’t resemble a democracy or free country.”
Neither does Russia.
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You are an evil anti American scumbag and you belong no where near America.
But then, you’re not.
In any event, more of you Russian dogs will now die in Ukraine.
Key screaming “death” to everyone you animal. We know you are desperate.
I want to know why we tolerate this Russian agent screaming “Death to NATO!” And “Long Live Russia/ Putin!” as he has been doing all day.
I’m glad he’s desperate, but still.
Long live America!
Is that so hard to say?
Long Live Trump!
Long Live Free Europe!
THOSE are American sentiments, not that dog chanting “Long Live Putin!”
You think that shouldn’t be denounced?
I don’t understand the, “Ukraine must win at all cost” crowd, it’ll just end up a super woke sh!thole run by the EU. They’ll start jamming it full of 3rd worlders 10 minutes after it is forced to join the EU.
If the Zeeper lives here, he or she is likely profiting from the war somehow.
But, there are several Zeepers that either have direct ties to Ukraine or are from Europe and hate Russia with a burning passion for whatever reason.
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