Story by Jessica Kwong
June 13, 2024
Ex-President Donald Trump ripped aid to Ukraine in his first visit to Capitol Hill since the insurrection in January 2021 (Picture: Reuters)© Provided by Metro
Former President Donald Trump reportedly questioned what the benefit would be of Ukraine winning the war with Russia in his first visit to Capitol Hill since the insurrection.
Trump spoke with Republican lawmakers on Thursday, hitting a range of issues behind closed doors, while President Joe Biden was in Italy meeting global leaders at the G7 Summit.
The ex-president apparently slammed a $60billion aid package for Ukraine that lawmakers including members of the GOP recently passed.
‘He’s like, if Ukraine wins, what will be the benefit?’ Republican Rep Don Bacon told reporters afterward.
Former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reacts following meetings with Republicans on Capitol Hill, at the National Republican Senatorial Committee headquarters in Washington, DC, on Thursday (Picture: Reuters)© Provided by Metro
Bacon added: ‘Well I could see the benefit pretty clearly.’
Trump also reportedly said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is ‘more afraid of him than Biden’.
He said he told Putin that if he invaded Ukraine, he would hit him hard,’ Foreign Affairs Chair Mike McCaul told the Daily Mail.
Trump addressed numerous controversial issues including abortion, urging House Republicans not to push for a national ban, according to lawmakers.
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump arrives at an advocacy center after meeting with Senate lawmakers at the National Republican Senatorial Committee on Capitol Hill (Picture: EPA)© Provided by Metro
House Speaker Mike Johnson said that Trump told them regarding abortion to ‘exercise your own conscience to talk about it, share your conviction, and do that in a way that makes sense to people’, and that he thought ‘he made a good point’.
Trump also called former Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s daughter a ‘wacko’ and claimed that she once said that her mother and him would be perfect together if things were different, according to a lawmaker.
Christine Pelosi then took to X (formerly Twitter) to call it a ‘LIE’.‘His deceitful, deranged obsession with our mother is yet another reason Donald Trump is unwell, unhinged and unfit to step foot anywhere near her — or the White House,’ she wrote.
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump waves as he departs the Capitol Hill Club (Picture: AP)© Provided by Metro
Trump also expressed disbelief over why pop star Taylor Swift would endorse Biden, which she did in 2020 but has not for the 2024 election.
‘Why would she endorse this dope?’ said Trump, according to CNN. ‘He doesn’t know how to get off a stage.’ The ex-president promised to work to expand the GOP’s majority in the House, which sits at a slim 218-213.
A fucktard of truly world class status.
No US president in history has ever repeatedly praised a murderous, psychopathic dictator.
Or “fallen in love” with one.
Taylor Swift for prez.
Girl’s got legs.
Yeah, but her candidacy would have no political legs to stand on, afaics. Come on, Scradge, that pop singer hasn’t even shown the political insights of U2’s Bono so far, and hopefully nobody will nominate that well meaning but naive pop activist. Your obsession reminds me a bit of a tweep who’s a huge fan of the country singer Carrie Underwear (or what’s her name). Don’t let great legs carry you away! 😁
I prefer to have them wrap around me… 🙂
Looks like you need to be a NFL star for that dream to become true, Larry. Start training!
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“great legs” in general; not necessarily hers.
To be fair, there’s not much that trumpkov *does* understand.
“Trump ‘can’t understand benefit of Ukraine winning war with Russia’”
This way of thinking is detestable and goes beyond the framework that should define responsible policy and diplomacy.
1. By supporting Ukraine, the United States is, in my opinion, only fulfilling its duty arising from the Budapest agreements binding the parties on the issue of security and recognition of the Ukrainian state. Rejecting the conflict by limiting it to a regional geopolitical issue that only concerns European states is absurd and irresponsible.
2. Support Ukraine and the front lines of NATO, allow the USA to benefit from an exchange framework with Europe, its leading trading partner, highly beneficial for its economy.
3. The question is poorly posed. We should ask ourselves, if we are an elected official from a democratic country concerned about respecting international rules which still barely maintain the global system: What is the benefit of supporting Ukraine in its fight against the Russian state which advocates as a line of conduct: genocide, barbarity, kidnapping of children.
As per usual. This “camp” fails to denounce any responsibility of the Kremlin and has for years ignored all of Moscow’s genocidal actions, as if the problem lay elsewhere. Their obstinacy in slaloming around Putin’s crimes, without anything being said, is beyond comprehension.
And this is what 35% of the US population wants as President. Anyone who has. Anyone who has love for Ukraine can’t possibly justify supporting this asshole. He’s a disgrace to anyone who seeks a return to normalcy. He’s a bickering narcissistic old scum sucker. And I’m being kind.
And for the record, I do not have TDS. I, regretfully voted for this asshole.
Mistakes happen, but with honest insights, we can avoid to repeat our false moves!
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I don’t care for anyone understanding the conflict. I just want the arms to flow to Ukraine in very large numbers.
B3rt
‘He’s like, if Ukraine wins, what will be the benefit?’
Of course. His reasoning is always about one thing: ‘What’s in this for me, me, me?’
Nothing else matters.
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If something is not written in a Dick and Jane reading book style, he simply can’t comprehend it.