Posted on 08/17/2025 1:47:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
"You're not going to end a war between Russia and Ukraine without dealing with Putin."
Secretary of State Marco Rubio unloaded on ABC News host Martha Raddatz over her claim that when President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at Friday’s summit in Alaska, he had effectively “elevated” the Russian leader on the world stage.
Raddatz brought up the summit, which Trump has touted as a success, and claimed that “people were saying” he had actually given Putin the upper hand by allowing him to walk the “red carpet” and be seen on the “world stage” meeting with the American President.
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“Critics of President Trump will say the pomp and circumstance — pomp and circumstance, the red carpet, the warm handshake — that President Trump simply lost that, that Putin gained there just by being on the world stage and walking down a red carpet with the president,” Raddatz said. “Your reaction to that?”
Rubio chuckled before responding, “Well, critics of President Trump are always going to find something to criticize, we don’t even pay attention to it anymore, but I will tell you this: Putin is already on the world stage.”
The Secretary of State went on to point out that Putin, after waging a major war against Ukraine for over three years, could hardly be considered a non-entity when it came to global politics — especially since he also sits in control of the second largest strategic nuclear arsenal in the world.
“When I hear people say that, ‘Oh, it elevates him,’ all we do is talk about Putin all the time. All the media’s done is talk about Putin all the time for the last four or five years,” Rubio said. “That doesn’t mean he’s right about the war, that...
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Did martha have the sad eyes when she asked that?
By going on any Fake News Media program he is elevating that Fake News Media program.
Lots here said similar.
The Putin propaganda on this site is sickening.
Putin, pos or not, is the leader of a major nuclear power. This is a reality that has to be dealt with. Like it or not.
Maybe one should ask: Martha can you see yourself? She looks like an old witch WAY past her prime.
“””She looks like an old witch WAY past her prime.”””
She was a hottie back in her day. Cavemen would often chisel her picture on the walls.
This dried up old hag’s “Use By” date expired long ago.
The media keeps telling me that Putin is “isolated,” but every time I see a picture of him he’s shaking hands with some country’s leader. Huh?
Why do they go on these rats shows to begin with? Don’t they know by now it’s a lose lose proposition to even try to have an honest conversation with them?
FU Pruneface, and everything that looks like you.
I’m looking at this and trying to figure out which is worse. Martha’s homely looks or her stupidity.
Hah! Well said.....
She has been servicing Democrats for too long.
Because she is an old witch. Quite literally.
“As much as everyone would love it to be a live pay-per-view event, these discussions ONLY work best when they are conducted privately.” Now that is what I call a brutal takedown of the media-just condescending enough to sting...
Smack! “Thank you, sir-may I have another?”
Hush Biden Puffer
If you believe that sack of crap is hot, you need stronger eyeglasses
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