Saturday, July 26, 2025

House Democrat calls Trump's "enourmous mistake" to blame Ukraine

From the Hill / Yahoo!News:

"House Democrat: Trump ‘made an enormous mistake’ by putting blame of war on Ukraine

Tara Suter

Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) said Sunday that President Trump “made an enormous mistake” in blaming the Russia-Ukraine war on the Ukrainians.

“I think the Trump administration made an enormous mistake during the campaign and then from the election forward by putting the blame on Ukraine for the war,” Smith told anchor Shannon Bream on “Fox News Sunday.” “It seems that President Trump honestly thought that it was Ukraine that was forcing forward the conflict.”

“And if he just talked to Zelensky and put pressure on Zelensky, then everything would be fine, which nobody who was paying any attention to the situation would have agreed with. Putin has been driving this conflict,” Smith added, referring to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin...

In February, President Trump seemingly blamed Ukraine’s leaders for the war with Russia, stating Zelensky “should have never started it.”

Russia began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than three years ago, after massing troops on the country’s border and pushing for a ban on Ukraine ever becoming a part of the NATO alliance..."

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