After his extremely criticized Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin ended with out reaching a ceasefire settlement within the struggle in Ukraine, President Donald Trump now says he thinks it might be “better” if Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with out him.
Talking Wednesday on “The Mark Levin Show,” Trump made the assertion regardless of claiming to conservative podcaster Mark Levin that he had “very successful” exchanges with each leaders.
“I had a very successful meeting with President Putin. I had a very successful meeting with President Zelenskyy. And now I thought it would be better if they met without me, just to see. I want to see what goes on. You know, they had a hard relationship, very bad, very bad relationship,” Trump stated.
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He continued, “And now we’ll see how they do and, if necessary, and it probably would be, but if necessary, I’ll go and I’ll probably be able to get it close.”
Trump went on to say that “they’re in the process of setting it up and we’re gonna see what happens,” including, “But you gotta stop the killing, Mark, it’s too much killing.”
The president then stated, “Nobody from America is being killed” within the struggle.
“United States soldiers aren’t involved,” he informed Levin. “We have no boots on the ground, but when you lose 6,000, 5,000, 7,000 young people, and then you also lose some people from the towns and cities as missiles get lobbed into them, can you imagine living like that?”
Trump, who had a follow-up assembly with Zelenskyy and high European leaders within the Oval Workplace Monday after Friday’s summit with Putin, made the feedback after he introduced plans to coordinate a summit between Putin and Zelenskyy in a bid to finish the more-than-three-year struggle in Ukraine.
In a Reality Social put up Monday, Trump stated he would additionally plan a trilateral assembly, through which he would participate, as a follow-up to a possible Putin and Zelenskyy assembly.
“At the conclusion of the meetings, I called President Putin, and began the arrangements for a meeting, at a location to be determined, between President Putin and President Zelenskyy,” Trump wrote. “After that meeting takes place, we will have a Trilat, which would be the two Presidents, plus myself.”
Take heed to Trump’s look on “The Mark Levin Show” on YouTube.
