“If, as a result of his actions, Ukraine should lose this war, it will be Donald Trump who lost the war in Ukraine. And he will go down to history as the one who lost the war for one of our allies. I hope and pray that does not happen.”
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) joined MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell to call out President Donald Trump’s betrayal of Ukraine and Elon Musk taking a sledgehammer to U.S. foreign policy.
View the full interview here.
Key Excerpt:
On the Trump administration taking a wrecking ball to U.S. foreign policy:
[…] Donald Trump only has himself to blame for his cowardice. Like a lot of bullies at their core, they’re really afraid. And for whatever reason, Donald Trump is afraid of Putin and caters to Putin, wants to emulate Putin. But no, I don’t think he can foist off his Russia file nature on me. But it’s like Elon Musk calling Mark Kelly a traitor. He called me a traitor last week. Now he’s calling Mark Kelly. I am very proud to be in the company of Mark Kelly.
But I feel like I should send an email to Elon Musk asking him the five things he’s done this week for his own car company, which is in the toilet right now. Maybe he should spend a little more time focused on his car company instead of wrecking American foreign policy, because between the two of these people, Donald Trump and Elon Musk, they have betrayed an ally at war. What they have done with Ukraine has been just shameful. This president, who claims that he’s the great architect of the Art of the Deal, has been sabotaging Ukraine in advance of any peace negotiation.
He, and Marco Rubio, Elon Musk talking about how Ukraine is going to have to give up its territory, talking about how Ukraine is not going to become a member of NATO, essentially undercutting them in every way — withdrawing military support, withdrawing intelligence support, withdrawing diplomatic support. And we’re supposed to believe, as Donald Trump just said in that interview, that no one’s ever been tougher on Russia? Does he think the whole country is stupid? We can see what he’s doing, and what he’s doing is sabotaging our ally, weakening our NATO alliance, and I think, it’s among the greatest betrayals in history.
[…] If, as a result of his actions, Ukraine should lose this war, it will be Donald Trump who lost the war in Ukraine. And he will go down in history as the one who lost the war for one of our allies. I hope and pray that does not happen.
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