The Grind:
Marie Yovanovitch, a former US Ambassador to Ukraine under President Trump who testified in favor of impeaching Trump, recently admitted that Trump would have likely been able to stop the Russia/Ukraine war.
The Details:
Yovanovitch made the comment while appearing on PBS. She actually had the nerve that Trump using his diplomatic brilliance to stop a brutal conflict from occurring abroad is somehow a bad thing.
“Trump was very dismissive of NATO…very critical of NATO, critical of our allies, and his close associates, including John Bolton, have said that if he won a second term, he’d have pulled us out of NATO, so why go to war if you’re Vladimir Putin if the United States is going to present the corpse of NATO to you on a silver platter,” Yovanovitch said, adding that “Trump would have provided Putin with enough of what he wanted that perhaps he wouldn’t have invaded” Ukraine. Read more…