{"id":107676,"date":"2024-09-27T22:19:47","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T15:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=107676"},"modified":"2024-09-27T22:19:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T15:19:47","slug":"trump-set-to-meet-zelensky-amid-gop-tensions-over-ukraine-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=107676","title":{"rendered":"Trump set to meet Zelensky amid GOP tensions over Ukraine assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p>\n    <cite class=\"source__cite\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__location\" data-editable=\"location\"\/><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__text\" data-editable=\"source\">CNN<\/span><br \/>\n        \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<br \/>\n    <\/cite>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1k18s5l001i2cnl6hqj214i@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/president-donald-trump-45\">Former President Donald Trump<\/a> and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet at Trump Tower on Friday morning, according to Trump, giving the Ukrainian leader the chance to make a personal pitch to a GOP presidential nominee openly skeptical of continued US security assistance for Ukraine against Russia.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1k1f1vs00043b6m5jl1e2in@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trump told reporters Thursday he would be sitting down with Zelensky, a meeting that had appeared murky earlier in the week following comments from both leaders critical of the other.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1k1f1vs00053b6m4v3dpyre@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Still, it\u2019s unclear whether Zelensky can say anything to convince Trump to change his position on the Russia-Ukraine war and US security assistance. Friday\u2019s meeting comes at a pivotal moment for Zelensky ahead of November\u2019s US election. He\u2019s sought this week to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/26\/politics\/zelensky-biden-harris-washington-visit\/index.html\">convince the Biden administration<\/a> that his country can still win the war, so long as the US and other countries significantly and quickly ramp up military assistance.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1k1f1vs00063b6mqbn32kp3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trump has repeatedly complained about the funding the US has provided for Ukraine and claimed he will quickly end the war between the two sides, which began with Russia\u2019s unprovoked invasion in February 2022. Zelensky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/the-new-yorker-interview\/volodymyr-zelensky-has-a-plan-for-ukraines-victory#_=_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said this week<\/a> that Trump doesn\u2019t know how to end Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1k1f1vs00073b6m87bl5caz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI look forward to seeing him,\u201d Trump said Thursday. \u201cWe\u2019ll see \u2014 I do believe I disagree with him \u2014 well, he doesn\u2019t know me. I disagree, but I will say this: I believe I will be able to make a deal between President Putin and President Zelensky quite quickly.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1k1f1vs00083b6m5qzdgmq2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Zelensky met at the White House on Thursday with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, and the Democratic nominee used the appearance to draw a stark contrast with Trump on Ukraine.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1k1f1vs00093b6mbhe066ap@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThere are some in my country who would instead force Ukraine to give up large parts of its sovereign territory, who would demand that Ukraine accept neutrality and would require Ukraine to forego security relationships with other nations,\u201d Harris said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1k1f1vs000a3b6mev2qmk3g@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Zelensky\u2019s anticipated meeting with Trump one day after visiting the White House puts him once again in the middle of a heated US political campaign \u2013 five years after Zelensky was caught up in another US domestic political firestorm.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1k1f1vs000b3b6mg93k42id@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In fact, it\u2019s been just over five years since Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/09\/25\/politics\/volodymyr-zelensky-donald-trump-meeting-unga\/index.html\">last met in person<\/a> with Zelensky, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. The meeting occurred amid a Democratic impeachment investigation into Trump for denying Zelensky a White House visit and US aid to Ukraine while Trump tried to get the Ukrainians to announce an investigation into then-presidential candidate Biden.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1k1f1vs000c3b6mdovz9071@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trump would ultimately be impeached by House Democrats over pressuring Zelensky to investigate Biden. The Ukrainian president, meanwhile, finally got a meeting in the Oval Office \u2013 with Biden \u2013 in September 2021.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1k1f1vs000d3b6mv5m720wh@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trump revealed on his Truth Social site Thursday that he had recently spoken by phone with Zelensky. But an in-person meeting while Zelensky, who was in town for the UN General Assembly, appeared unlikely earlier this week.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1k1f1vs000e3b6mow1bry5b@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            At a rally Wednesday, Trump criticized Zelensky\u00a0and claimed the Ukrainian president \u201crefuses to make a deal\u201d with Russia, marking the former president\u2019s most\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/07\/20\/europe\/ukraine-zelensky-uncertainty-russia-negotiations-intl\/index.html\">explicit criticism<\/a>\u00a0of Zelensky\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/live-news\/biden-speech-un-general-assembly-09-24-24\/index.html\">handling of the war to date.\u00a0<\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1k1f1vs000f3b6m5vr1ki39@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThose cities are gone, they\u2019re gone, and we continue to give billions of dollars to a man who refused to make a deal, Zelensky. There was no deal that he could have made that wouldn\u2019t have been better than the situation you have right now. You have a country that has been obliterated, not possible to be rebuilt,\u201d Trump said during a campaign speech in Mint Hill, North Carolina.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1k1f1vs000g3b6mcuej04nb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trump\u2019s Republican allies in Congress are also <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.cnn.com\/cnn\/2024\/09\/25\/politics\/donald-trump-ukraine-republicans\">furious with Zelensky<\/a> for his visit to a Pennsylvania ammunition plant along with Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro. They\u2019ve argued his visit to the key battleground state, which is home to a sizable population of people of Ukrainian ancestry, had partisan motivations, with House Speaker Mike Johnson calling on Zelensky to fire the Ukrainian ambassador to the US. Republicans have also taken issue with Zelensky calling Ohio Sen. JD Vance, the GOP vice presidential candidate, \u201ctoo radical\u201d in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/the-new-yorker-interview\/volodymyr-zelensky-has-a-plan-for-ukraines-victory?_sp=f04c511b-e457-4e6c-a245-4f5009e7e9ba.1727390215396\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Yorker.<\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1k1f1vs000h3b6m949g75lv@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In the same interview, Zelensky criticized Trump, saying: \u201cMy feeling is that Trump doesn\u2019t really know how to stop the war even if he might\u00a0think\u00a0he knows how. With this war, oftentimes, the deeper you look at it the less you understand.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1k1f1vs000i3b6mn1a2uc3f@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trump left things open-ended when asked Thursday whether he believes Ukraine should cede territory to Russia as a means of ending the war.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1k1f1vs000j3b6m5vsf8jdy@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cWe\u2019ll see what happens,\u201d Trump told reporters at Trump Tower.\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/27\/politics\/trump-zelensky-meeting\/index.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Former President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet at Trump Tower on Friday morning, according to Trump, giving the Ukrainian leader the chance to make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=107676\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}