Trump SHUT DOWN By Zelenskyy As Meeting STUNT BACKFIRES!

Donald Trump is weaker than he has ever been before. Vladimir Putin knew it in Alaska. Gavin Newsom understands that right now. And President Zelensky is showing it by displaying how unafraid he is of Donald Trump. He will not be pushed around and he will not be intimidated. And he made that clear today as Trump and Zelensky are set to meet as he made a bold move defying an insane

Trump post, an insane Trump announcement that we are gonna get into shutting Trump down. But before we do if I could quickly ask you to leave a like on this video and if you haven't already and you enjoy our channel to hit that subscribe button because it goes a long way in supporting our work. Now Zelensky's takedown and shutdown of Trump came because of an insane post he made last night but before we get into it I want to start with the insane election fraud post he made this morning and how

leaders are hitting back on it. Trump took to Truth Social this morning to write, I am going to lead a movement to get rid of mail-in ballots and also while we're at it highly inaccurate inaccurate, very expensive, and seriously controversial voting machines, which cost 10 times more than accurate and sophisticated watermark paper, which is faster and leaves no doubt at the end of the evening as to who won and who lost the election.

We are now the only country in the world that uses mail-in voting.

All others gave it up because of the massive voter fraud encountered. That's how strongly I feel about this moment, and I think millions, hundreds of millions of Americans feel the same. We take Donald Trump seriously when he talks about the 2028 election. I mentioned to my friends a moment ago that I got a hat, a Trump 2028 hat from Donald Trump's biggest supporters, one of his biggest and most influential supporters. They're not screwing around. We cannot afford to screw around either.

We have got to fight fire with fire. And I'll close on that point. What more evidence do you need in the state of California in the last just six months? Warrantless raids all across this state.

I feel like Gavin Newsom is the only one adequately responding to this, the only one taking this seriously in a meaningful way. He knows that Donald Trump doesn't want to just steal the midterms for the sake of stealing the midterms. This isn't about passing an agenda

or protecting Republican members of Congress. Donald Trump needs Congress to back him up because he still wants to run for president. He still wants to run for a third term and we have to take that seriously. The attacks on our elections are only getting worse

as Donald Trump seeks to undermine democracy and hand over America to anyone who bats their eyelashes at him, whether it be a billionaire or Vladimir Putin, and that was called out by Eric Swalwell before we get into how Zelensky shut Trump down.

Congressman, your sense of where this goes from here?

Well, if you're Europe, you're quite worried now because you just saw the president of the United States achieve zero, and they will have to ask themselves what more are they willing to do knowing that they too could be thrown under the bus if Russia ever moved farther west. But as far as objectives, I was hoping to hear that there would be a trilateral meeting. That didn't come out of this. I was hoping to hear there'd be a ceasefire.

That didn't come out of this. I was hoping to at least hear about the territory that would be proposed or exchanged by both sides. That didn't come out of this. Look, Alicia, I don't know if Donald Trump is or is not a Russian asset. I do know that at press conferences like this and like at Helsinki, he certainly acts like one.

And that is cold comfort for anyone in the United States, particularly in our military, that the commander in chief would be so flattering of and so charming to a ruthless dictator like Vladimir Putin.

Donald Trump is more willing than any president in history to just sell us out. And what does he get from it? Nothing. Well, we don't get anything from it. What Donald Trump gets is the stroking of his ego. The two major announcements made by Vladimir Putin at their summit had nothing to do with

the peace deal. It was him saying that the 2020 election was stolen, a lie, and that Trump would have prevented the war if he was president in 2022, another lie. Donald Trump doesn't actually care about a peace deal, which is why he made an insane post last night that Zelensky immediately hit back at. Zelensky undermines Trump before big meeting even begins

President Zelensky only waited a matter of minutes to publicly reject an overnight demand for Donald Trump before their White House meeting alongside European leaders on Monday. Trump used his Truth Social account to show his apparent stance going into the meeting, writing, President Zelensky of Ukraine can end the war with Russia almost immediately if he wants to or he can continue to fight.

Trump's post repeated the demands Russian President Vladimir Putin had put on ending the war, and which have been rejected previously. Remember how it started. No getting back Obama-given Crimea 12 years ago without a shot being fired, and no going into NATO by Ukraine, Trump wrote. Some things never change.

After landing in DC on Sunday, Zelensky took to social media to post he was grateful to Trump for the invitation and said, We all share a strong desire to end this war quickly and reliably. The Ukrainian leader, however, then approached the issue of Crimea in his ex post. The foundations of the current war began in 2014 when Russia invaded the Crimean peninsula, which was part of Ukraine and annexed it.

In February 2022, Russia started the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II when it invaded Ukraine. Peace must be lasting, Zelensky said in a post, not like it was years ago, when Ukraine was forced to give up Crimea and part of our east, part of Donbass, and Putin simply used it as a springboard for a new attack. He added, of course, Crimea should not have been given up then, just as Ukrainians did

not give up Kiev, Odessa after 2022. Ukrainians are fighting for their land, for their independence, now our soldiers have success." While Zelensky did not link the issue of Crimea to Trump's post, the president had posted his own message to Zelensky just 90 minutes earlier. Zelensky did address Trump directly at one point, however, writing, I am confident that we will defend Ukraine, effectively guarantee security, and that our people will always be grateful to Trump, everyone in America and

every partner and ally for their support and invaluable assistance. Zelensky is making it quite clear that he is unwilling to just bend as Donald Trump wants him to. He is unwilling to cede territory. He is unwilling to play this game for Putin. No matter what Donald Trump says in a post,

he is shutting that down. And it's why so many European leaders have come to back up Zelensky. I don't think necessarily because he needs to come from a position of strength in this conversation, in this meeting, I think he is coming

from a position of strength.

But what

European leaders don't want to happen is for Trump to make this another PR stunt, for JD Vance to start screaming with his little fat face about whether Zelensky is wearing a suit or not. They want dignity in this day. They want a meeting of substance, something Donald Trump is unable to accomplish, but we'll see how it goes. But we are seeing a bit of movement around the possibility of security guarantees for Ukraine, suggesting that although Trump is completely in Putin's pocket, the pressure

from European leaders and our allies around the world might be too much for Trump to overcome. Because he's weak. Let's always go back to that. This is not a strong individual. His will is not destined and drawn out and laid out by some ultimate policy outcome

that he wants. No, Trump is just gonna bend to the strongest person in the room. And today, that won't be him, that won't be J.D. Vance, it won't be Marco Rubio or Pete Hegsteth, it'll be President Zelensky.

That'll be the strongest person in the room. Everyone knows Trump is weak. So does Congressman Jason Crow, who called out Trump right here.

Doesn't the Secretary have a point that it has to be hammered out at the negotiating table?

You know, this absolutely will end at a negotiating table, like most conflicts will. But what happened on Friday, it was a historic embarrassment for the United States. There's no other way to put it. You listen to what Marco Rubio and the president have said. They keep on saying they're dedicating time. They're making it a priority. They're focusing their attention on it.

In any negotiation, when you're trying to end an armed conflict, there's nothing more important than understanding what motivates your adversary. What is making Vladimir Putin tick in this instance? Vladimir Putin does not care about the amount of time that we're allocating to this. Does not care about a B-2 bomber flyover. Does not

care about a lineup of F-22 fighters rolled out. He doesn't care about any of that. What Vladimir Putin cares about is basically three things. He cares about economic pressure in the form of sanctions. He cares about political diplomatic isolation, being a pariah state, and he cares about military defeat.

Those are the three things that will end this conflict. If he feels pressure on all of those three fronts, and this administration continues to be unwilling to do anything to assert pressure in any of those three areas.

Well, they have put in place some secondary sanctions, at least on India here, and they haven't pulled back. They need Congress to help them repeal a lot of these sanctions. But bigger picture, in hindsight, do you think the United States to date has been too hesitant to actually help Ukraine win this war? President Obama did not send offensive weapons to Ukraine. President Biden was criticized for being perhaps too slow in delivery of certain weapons.

Yeah, there's no doubt. As you know, I was one of the members of Congress that on a bipartisan basis pushed really hard in the first two years of this war under the Biden administration to do more, to do more quicker.

And I was concerned that we were doing just enough to prevent Ukraine from losing and not doing enough to help them win. And I do believe that had we done more and we had done it faster and that we were willing to be more aggressive in providing aid and support for Ukraine,

then they would be in a different position on the battlefield today. But compare that to what this administration has done, which has relieved almost all pressure. Look at what happened on Friday. U.S. military personnel in uniform literally were on their hands and knees rolling out

a red carpet for the most murderous dictator of the 21st century, somebody who is kidnapped and is holding prisoner tens of thousands of Ukrainian children, somebody who started this whole war, right? This both sides-ism that the administration is engaging in, that both sides need to come to the table and negotiate, Ukraine is the victim.

They are the victim. They didn't start this war, Russia did. And somehow we keep on acting like Vladimir Putin deserves to be brought out into the open like any other head of state. This is a historic embarrassment and defeat

for US foreign policy.

You've served this country in uniform. I wonder, since you sit on the Armed Services Committee, how comfortable you would be with the United States giving this, whatever the Article V-like security guarantee would look like. Is that something you should see boots on the ground to do?

I don't think boots on the ground would be the way to go, but certainly the United States has assets and capability that I think are essential to any type of security guarantee. I think Europe has to come forward with the forward presence of military, but we can provide intelligence, we can provide economic support, diplomatic support.

One of the most important things that we can do right now is actually seize Russian assets. This would be huge. This would be a game-changing thing to put pressure on Vladimir Putin and actually create security guarantees and reconstruction for Ukraine. There's over $150 billion of seized Russian assets, and the United States could lead a

coalition to seize that money.

It is embarrassing that at this point we even have to worry about how the meeting will go today, what wardrobe will be discussed, whether Marjorie Taylor Greene's stupid boyfriend is going to ask a stupid question, but we are getting closer to peace, not because of Trump obviously, but because of the strength of our allies in Ukraine. We should all keep that in mind today. Those who fought so bravely, they deserve to have that fight recognized and have that fight supported. We're gonna keep on standing with our friends in Ukraine and

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