President Trump late Sunday in a pair of posts on Truth Social ripped the media and a prominent Democrat for criticisms of his summit on Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Trump met with Putin in Alaska, and will meet Monday with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky as he seeks to find a way to end the more than three-year war between those two countries.
Media criticism of the summit has focused on the lack of clear accomplishments from the meeting, and Trump’s decision to literally roll out a red carpet for the Russian leader.
“The Fake News has been saying for 3 days that I suffered a ‘major defeat’ by allowing President Vladimir Putin of Russia to have a major Summit in the United States,” Trump wrote.
“Actually, he would have loved doing the meeting anywhere else but the U.S., and the Fake News knows this. It was a major point of contention! If we had the Summit elsewhere, the Democrat run and controlled media would have said what a terrible thing THAT was. These people are sick!”
Trump then criticized Democrats and the media for wanting crime in D.C., an apparent reference to his decision to federalize the local police force and call in the National Guard to the nation’s capital.
Trump then turned to criticism of Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), who earlier on Sunday had described Trump’s decision to federalize D.C. police as a “stunt.”
“The very unattractive (both inside and out!) Senator from Connecticut, Chris Murphy, said ‘Putin got everything that he wanted.’ Actually, ‘nobody got anything,’ too soon, but getting close.
“Murphy is a lightweight who thinks it made the Russian President look good in coming to America. Actually, it was very hard for President Putin to do so. This war can be ended, NOW, but stupid people like Chris Murphy, John Bolton, and others, make it much harder to do so,” Trump wrote, referencing his former national security adviser.
Murphy on Sunday said Trump called in the National Guard to Washington, D.C., and federalized the police because he “didn’t like the fact that the walls were closing in on him, that his own base was questioning why he wouldn’t release the Epstein files, why he was protecting very powerful people.” Murphy made those remarks in an interview with NBC News’s Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press.”
Murphy had also criticized the summit, saying Trump was effectively elevating Putin on the global stage.
Trump in a third post also criticized Zelensky, again suggesting that ending the war with Russia was all on his shoulders.
“President Zelenskyy of Ukraine can end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to, or he can continue to fight,” Trump wrote.
He blamed former President Obama for Russia having taken over Crime in 2014, and appeared to blame the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 on Ukraine’s discussions about entering NATO.
Russia unilaterally invaded Ukraine in 2022, after previously taking over Crimea, recognized as part of Ukraine, in 2014.
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