Rape Adam Smith (D-Was), House Armed Services Committee rankings Democrats said that he was very disappointed with the historic summit between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday.
In an interview on the “The Hill Sunday” of the newsnation, Smith criticized the US President, who criticized to focus more than his meeting with Putin to push to end the war in Ukraine, which first agreed to a ceasefire without agreeing to a ceasefire.
“The summit in Alaska was very disappointing,” Smith said in the interview. “We demanded a ceasefire from the table in exchange for nothing.”
Smith also criticized Trump’s “honor”, unlike the approach with protest over the protest during the explosive oval office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelanski in February.
Smith said, “President Trump had shown Putin – once just stating the original belief that Ukraine has the right to exist as a sovereign, democratic country and the attack was illegal, illegal.”
“And you are the opposite that the way President Trump and Vice President Vance treated Zelanceci on returning to the West Wing in February – it sends a wrong signal if we are trying to force Putin to the table and a conversation for this war is over,” he continued.
Smith said that it is “understanding” for Trump “trying to bring Putin and Zelanceci together in a room, saying,” I appreciate that effort, but you have to understand what Putin wants from this. “
“Putin all want Ukraine, and he is just trying to buy time to play the role of President Trump and to do so,” he continued. “This is Putin’s calculation that has to be changed.”
