Well, he's attacking Zelenskyy because he doesn't like him and he hasn't liked him since the famous perfect phone conversation in the summer of 2019 about basically threatening to withhold U.S. security assistance to Ukraine unless Zelenskyy and his government cooperated in the hunt for Hillary Clinton's computer server.
John Bolton explains Trump's animosity towards Zelenskyy and references past interactions that influenced this relationship.
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In a normal world, you don't extort your friends. You know, I have I have no objection in principle to seeking some kind of compensation for the United States for the aid that it's given.
Let's be clear, Putin has a strategy. He started explaining it to the world in 2005. He basically wants to recreate the Russian empire.
Look, Trump has said many times, including in public, that he thinks if he has good relations with a foreign head of state, then the United States itself has good relations with that country and the converse is also true.
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