How can the White House go on after the scandal?
After the scandal at the Oval Office, many Republicans in the US raise Trump, and the Democrats are angry. Can the US and Ukraine approach after the quarrel?
It had never happened before: an American president insults the president of another country in the oval office in front of television cameras and then puts him out of the White House.
“You are jeopardizing the third World War. And what you are doing is a great lack of respect for this country, ”Donald Trump voice at the height of the dispute. « Your country is in great difficulty, » Trump continued, interrupting the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and adding that Ukraine cannot win this war.
Zelensky: The quarrel is not good for both sides
Zelenskyj left the White House earlier after the quarrel. But despite the scandal at the Oval Office, he gave an interview to Fox News, where he stressed that the raw material agreement, according to the US imagination, was not enough to launch peace negotiations with Russia. Zelensky emphasized the need for security guarantees from the US. « This kind of quarrel is not good for both sides, » Zelensky said. « But I can't change Ukraine's attitude towards Russia. They are killers for us. Americans are our best friends, Europeans are our best friends. Putin and Russia are enemies. ”
Trump: zelensky turn when ready for peace
Before leaving for Florida, where he is spending the weekend at Mar-a-Lago, Trump said Zelensky could return as soon as he was ready to make peace: « He cannot stay there and say, Putin this and Putin it, he has to say, I want peace, I do not want to continue this war anymore. »
Is there any perspective after this scandal? Can Ukraine count still with US support? Can Trump and Zelensky talk again with each other? Republican Senator Lindsey Graham suspects this after a dispute at the Ovalle office. He said that Zelensky was brought in with disrespect in the Oval office. « I don't know if we will be able to negotiate with Zelensky again, » Graham said. And the Mike Lawler Republican is more restrained: “We can save this. And it has to be saved, ”Lawler told PBS. According to the Republican, « Failure would be catastrophic for both Europe and the free world. » Many other Republicans posted on social media that Trump had demonstrated force against Zelensky.
Democrats in the US reacted with anger. Democratic Senator, Richard Blumenthal, told CNN: “This type of denigration and intimidation by the president and vice president was shameful. It was like an ambush attack. ”
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, referring to Europe's supporting reactions for Zelensky asked in CNN: « If Donald Trump decides tomorrow because I don't care about Ukraine, I don't care Russia, I don't care about this war – who on this planet has a chance to bring the warring parties to the negotiation table? The answer is: Not no one. ”
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