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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Tell them to stop Interfering with The Trump
Raddatz is a bigger menace than Putin.
Martha Rattazz is so ugly she has a picture of Helen Thomas in her bathroom instead of a mirror.
The “old guy” you’re talking about is obviously a dyed in the wool democrat party apparatchik, who will eat up and regurgitate anything negative about Trump and republicans that he hears. We’ve all ran into these type of democrats. They’re the ones who swallow whole anything the MSNBC type radicals say... Because they want to, they feed on it. No amount of honest info is going to sway a person like that one bit. People like that are called ‘haters’ for good reason, because that’s exactly what they are. They’re a lost cause.
We need to focus on the moderates out their who don’t have their minds totally made up and aren’t complete meatheads. Republicans going on these shows really doesn’t do much to sway moderates because the hosts of these MSM programs always throw out their accusations disguised as settled upon facts. They do more to fool the low-info voters into believing negativity about R’s and Trump and that doesn’t help our cause one bit. Word of mouth, one on one is the best way to get through to a moderate who is on the fence.
Rubio elevated Raddatz !
What a maroon.
Martha Haggatz.....enough said.
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