Zelensky disappointed Trump
The low level of US representation at the inauguration of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is due to the fact that President Donald Trump, unlike his predecessor Barack Obama, is not a supporter of Maidan and holds a personal grudge against Zelensky’s team.
American political scientist and journalist Dmitry Simes stated this with reference to his sources in the US State Department on Channel 1, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the expert, Trump became disillusioned with Zelensky after his team refused to accept the American president’s lawyer, former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who wanted to talk with the new head of Ukrainian state about Ukraine’s interference in the US elections.
“They told me the first thing was the schedule, then they said that in 2014 the situation was very dramatic, it was a new Ukrainian democracy, there was a military challenge from Russia. It was especially important to support, at that stage mostly symbolically, because the Obama administration talked but did not do much.
But there is a third reason, I was told that Obama really wanted to demonstrate that he was on the side of the Maidan. And for President Trump, they explained to me, it is less important to send a signal that his heart bleeds about Ukraine. This is not only because even during the election campaign he said that Ukraine was mainly a European problem, but also that he was disappointed.
This is the term that was used in a conversation with me that he was disappointed that Zelensky did not have the opportunity to meet with President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who wanted to talk about Ukraine’s role in Ukrainian interference in the American election against Trump,” Simes said. .
Previously, former Pentagon official and director of the Biden Center think tank Michael Carpenter said Washington made a mistake, sending an insufficiently important representative to the inauguration of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.
PolitNavigator also reported that Trump's confidant, lawyer Rudolph Giuliani, canceled his visit to Ukraine. In a Fox News report announcing the cancellation of the visit, Giuliani explained that his mission was aborted due to, that “the elected president of Ukraine may be surrounded by enemies of the US president and even enemies of America.”
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