Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) on Sunday broke with President Trump over Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and suggested in opposition to a public spat between the 2 leaders.
“Are you disturbed at all by the rhetoric coming from the Trump administration about Zelensky?” ABC Information’s Martha Raddatz requested Lawler on “This Week.”
“I did not agree with the president’s rhetoric about [Volodymyr] Zelensky. What I would say is this, it is not — it does not behoove either side to have this public back and forth,” Lawler responded.
Trump took swings on the Ukrainian president a number of instances up to now week. On Tuesday, he appeared guilty Ukrainian leaders for the present struggle within the nation and alleged that Zelensky “should have never started it.” In response, Zelensky stated that the president “lives in this disinformation space.”
“Think of it, a modestly successful comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, talked the United States of America into spending $350 Billion Dollars, to go into a War that couldn’t be won, that never had to start, but a War that he, without the U.S. and ‘TRUMP,’ will never be able to settle,” Trump stated on his Reality Social platform Wednesday.
The president additionally questioned U.S. spending in favor of Ukraine, in addition to why the administration earlier than didn’t demand that Europeans chip in the identical quantity, contemplating their closeness to the struggle.
“He refuses to have Elections, is very low in Ukrainian Polls, and the only thing he was good at was playing Biden ‘like a fiddle,’” Trump stated, speaking concerning the Ukrainian president. “A Dictator with out Elections, Zelenskyy higher transfer quick or he’s not going to have a Nation left.”
In his “This Week” look, Lawler stated that he believes “President Zelensky needs to work with the administration, especially with respect to economic cooperation.”
“The United States has invested hundreds of billions of dollars to support Ukraine,” he added. “And, when this war is finally over, Ukraine is gonna need significant investment to rebuild.”
The Hill has reached out to the White Home for remark.
