Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump in recent days, offering contrasting perspectives on U.S. foreign policy regarding Ukraine. Pompeo defended Trump's handling of Russia, arguing that the former president deterred Vladimir Putin despite criticism.
“Very different meetings. In one case, he was meeting with a vice president who was in charge when tens of thousands of people of his — Zelensky’s — people in Ukraine were killed. And the other president had deterred Vladimir Putin for four years,” he said.
“The United States of America stood strong, we were capable of deterring Vladimir Putin in spite of the fact that CNN and thetalked about President Trump as being a Russian puppet. … The outcome will be very different too. With President Trump in office, we will achieve these, we will get a good outcome for the Ukrainian people, and Vladimir Putin will again be deterred from the aggression we have seen these last 2 1/2, almost three years now,” he said.
Zelesnky’s relationship with Trump has been considerably frostier than his with the Biden administration, with Trump earlier this week at a rally in Pennsylvania calling him “the greatest salesman on Earth.”
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