Trump Consents to Meeting with Zelensky
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has agreed to meet with Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky. Read the full article at RT.com.
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The former US president recently accused the Ukrainian leader of casting “nasty aspersions” against him.
US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has announced plans to meet with Ukraine’s President Vladimir Zelensky on Friday in New York.
Zelensky has already had meetings this week with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, who is the Democratic candidate for the upcoming presidential election in November. He has also sought a meeting with Trump.
“I will be meeting with him tomorrow morning at around 9:45 at Trump Tower,” the former and potentially future US president stated during a press conference in New York City on Thursday afternoon.
Earlier that day, Trump shared a message from Ukraine’s deputy ambassador to the US on his TruthSocial platform, which conveyed Zelensky’s request for a meeting.
“Dear Donald, I hope you’re doing well. I recall our recent phone call – it was really good,” Zelensky wrote. “All of us in Ukraine want to end this war with a just peace. And we know that without America this is impossible to achieve. That’s why we have to strive to understand each other and remain in close contact.”
“You know I always speak with great respect about everything connected to you, and that’s how it should be,” the Ukrainian leader added, expressing his desire for the meeting to occur.
This request followed Trump’s criticism of the “little nasty aspersions” that Zelensky had made about him and his running mate, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, in an interview released last Sunday.
During a campaign rally in North Carolina, Trump described Ukraine as “absolutely obliterated” and accused Biden and Harris of “feeding Zelensky money and munitions like no country has ever seen before.”
“We continue to give billions of dollars to a man who refuses to make a deal,” Trump remarked, referring to Zelensky. “Any deal, even the worst deal, would have been better than what we have right now.”
Allen M Lee contributed to this report for TROIB News
US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has announced plans to meet with Ukraine’s President Vladimir Zelensky on Friday in New York.
Zelensky has already had meetings this week with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, who is the Democratic candidate for the upcoming presidential election in November. He has also sought a meeting with Trump.
“I will be meeting with him tomorrow morning at around 9:45 at Trump Tower,” the former and potentially future US president stated during a press conference in New York City on Thursday afternoon.
Earlier that day, Trump shared a message from Ukraine’s deputy ambassador to the US on his TruthSocial platform, which conveyed Zelensky’s request for a meeting.
“Dear Donald, I hope you’re doing well. I recall our recent phone call – it was really good,” Zelensky wrote. “All of us in Ukraine want to end this war with a just peace. And we know that without America this is impossible to achieve. That’s why we have to strive to understand each other and remain in close contact.”
“You know I always speak with great respect about everything connected to you, and that’s how it should be,” the Ukrainian leader added, expressing his desire for the meeting to occur.
This request followed Trump’s criticism of the “little nasty aspersions” that Zelensky had made about him and his running mate, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, in an interview released last Sunday.
During a campaign rally in North Carolina, Trump described Ukraine as “absolutely obliterated” and accused Biden and Harris of “feeding Zelensky money and munitions like no country has ever seen before.”
“We continue to give billions of dollars to a man who refuses to make a deal,” Trump remarked, referring to Zelensky. “Any deal, even the worst deal, would have been better than what we have right now.”
Allen M Lee contributed to this report for TROIB News
