The “press conference”(no questions allowed, 100% Putin’s decision) really was disgraceful. Putin leads off, on American soil, as the guest!!! Gives Donald a bone by saying “I can confirm no war with Ukraine if Trump was president”!! lol, and Trump, unable to resist “Russia….Russia…Russia” for the upteenth time since 2016. It was just a humiliating performance, on American soil, including a red carpet welcome for a wanted war criminal. As Alexander Vindman said last night, paraphrasing, the press conference was a stunning display of how far the office of the presidency of the United States has fallen under a wanna be dictator.
If I were these men, I would resent Trump for the rest of my life for assigning me the task of unfurling the red carpet for a mass murderer and wanted war criminal! What a shameful insult to all the innocent Ukrainians killed in Putin’s war!
As Alexander Vindman said last night, the summit and press conference by Trump represented a debasement of the presidency. And for what? So Putin, a universal pariah, wanted for war crimes, could be welcomed back into the community of nations?! General consensus, by the talking heads last night, is that the war will continue now. Absolutely nothing was accomplished. Other than demonstrating to the free world what the free world already knew: Donald Trump is the most un-American president in American history, supporting and promoting everything that we have stood against since the defeat of fascism 80 years ago.