When you put the pieces of this together, it becomes impossible to believe that this was not a planned attack on President Zelensky with a clear message of hostility aimed at him. Let's remember the context. Donald Trump had called President Zelensky a dictator. Donald Trump suggested that Ukraine started the war or, at a minimum, provoked it and caused it. Donald Trump and JD Vance called for a new presidential election in the middle of the war. Donald Trump was parroting Russian propaganda, often right after communicating with Vladimir Putin.
Lest we forget, I remind the reader of the reason Donald Trump was impeached the first time. President Zelensky knew an attack from Russia was imminent as did Congress which provided aid for Ukraine. Donald Trump ordered that the aid not be released. He knew President Zelensky would grow anxious as he waited for the aid to be delivered, conscious that an attack from Putin was coming soon. Donald Trump took advantage of the situation. He planned what he would say in their next phone conversation. He knew President Zelensky would bring up the aid. So he demanded a favor first. He connected receiving the aid with doing a personal, political favor for him. That favor was announcing a non-existent investigation into his likely political opponent. It fell apart and eventually under public pressure he had to release the aid. Donald Trump has been a fan boy of Vladmir Putin since the late 1980s. This is the context of the meeting.
According to Sam Stein, when Donald Trump greeted President Zelensky, he mocked President Zelensky for not wearing a suit. That immediately set a tone. Then he sees Russian State TV there which again communicated a message. Neither Reuters nor AP were allowed in. Then the only one media outlet representative, Brian Glenn, a far right conspiracy theorist on a crackpot media outlet, apparently was allowed to ask a question or he squeezed one out. It wasn't actually a question. He castigated President Zelensky for not wearing a suit. HE WAS REPEATING THE EXACT SAME INSULT DONALD TRUMP MADE. IT'S HARD TO INAGINE THAT PRESIDENT ZELENSKY DIDN'T CONNECT THE TWO. AND HE PUT THAT TOGETHER WITH THE PRESENCE OF RUSSIAN STATE TV AND HE HAD TO KNOW THAT AN AMBUSH WAS COMING. It is well known that President Zelensky isn't going to dress up and wear a suit while the people in his country are suffering from this brutal war.
While 18,000 Ukrainian children are being held hostage and while his country has suffered from a brutal invasion from Putin, Vance demanded President Zelensky prostrate himself in front of Donald Trump. President Zelensky wouldn't do it. CNN counted 33 times when President Zelensky has thanked the American people and the American president for their support. Vance further ratcheted up the attacks by saying that President Zelensky was campaigning for Vice President Kamala Harris without evidence and said that President Zelensky is on a propaganda tour. He pressured President Zelensky into detailing the reality of the war for the people of Ukraine and then when he did so, he chastised President Zelensky for litigating it in public and claimed that this was somehow "disrespectful" to Donald Trump. Then Donald Trump threw him out of the Oval Office, but not before saying that this made for "GREAT TV" .
That confirms the intent of Donald Trump was to put on a show for Vladimir Putin and for his supporters, insulting President Zelensky and attacking him. They intended to send him a hostile message from the beginning. This was planned.
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