Trump says he'll meet with Zelenskiyy at Trump Tower Friday morning
Harris, standing with Zelenskyy, indirectly jabs at Trump and Vance on Ukraine views
Former President Donald Trump said he'll meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Trump Tower on Friday morning, after there was some doubt about whether the two would see each other while Zelenskyy was visiting the U.S.
Trump has been highly critical of funding to Ukraine and at times, Zelenskyy — an uneasy relationship that was made even less comfortable after the Ukrainian president announced a visit to an ammunition plant in battleground state Pennsylvania.
- House Speaker Mike Johnson called on Zelenskyy to fire his ambassador to the U.S., Oksana Markarova, over the Pennsylvania trip and its lack of Republicans present.
- Zelenskyy has in turn been critical of Trump, saying the former U.S. president "doesn't really know how to stop the war."
- Trump frequently says Russia "would have never attacked Ukraine" if he was president.
Trump has frequently claimed that he would be able to end the war in Ukraine quickly, in as little as "a day." CBS News' Caitlin Huey-Burns asked him what an end to the fighting would look like.
"I don't want to tell you what that looks like," he responded. He said of Ukraine that Russian leader Vladimir Putin "told me often it's the apple of his eye."
Trump also told reporters of his meeting with Zelenskyy, "We'll see what happens, but I believe I can work that out." Asked whether Ukraine should cede land to Russia to end the war, Trump did not answer directly.
Earlier Thursday, Trump posted to his social media platform, Truth Social, a message purportedly from Zelenskyy requesting a face-to-face meeting with Trump while Zelenskyy would already be in New York.
Trump's announcement that he would meet with Zelenskyy came shortly after that post.Zelenskiyy was in Washington on Thursday for meetings with top members of Congress, as well as President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
26 Sep, 2024 21:47
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Trump agrees to meet Zelenskiyy
Ukrainian leader has previously cast “nasty aspersions” on the former US president
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has announced he will meet with Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelenskiyy on Friday in New York.
Zelenskiyy has met with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, who is the Democrats’ candidate for the presidency in the November election. He has also sought a meeting with Trump.
“I will be meeting with him tomorrow morning at around 9:45 at Trump Tower,” the former and possibly future US president announced at a press conference in New York City on Thursday afternoon.
Earlier in the day, Trump had posted a message from Ukraine’s deputy ambassador
Bridget A. Brink to the US, relaying Zelensky’s request for a meeting, to his TruthSocial platform.
“You know I always speak with great respect about everything connected to you, and that’s how it should be,” the Ukrainian actor-turned-politician wrote, adding that he would “really like for our meeting to take place.”
The request came after Trump criticized the “little nasty aspersions” Zelensky had made about him and his running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance, in an interview published last Sunday.
At a campaign rally in North Carolina, Trump described Ukraine as “absolutely obliterated” and accused Biden and Harris of “feeding Zelensky money and munitions like no country has ever seen before.”
“We continue to give billions of dollars to a man who refuses to make a deal,” Trump said, referring to Zelensky.
“Any deal, even the worst deal, would have been better than what we have right now.”
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