WASHINGTON —Missouri U.S. Senator Eric Schmitt responded Saturday with his opinion on the wild meeting between the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and President Donald Trump.
On social media Schmitt wrote, Zelenskyy could have signed the deal five days earlier but wanted to come to the White House. He'd been difficult for two weeks. Yet he wanted the White House meeting. Trump was upbeat about it even just the day before publicly and privately the day of."
"Although he could have reset the whole thing Zelenskyy was antagonistic and over the top. There are no more cards to play. No more “it could be your sons next” or “one more year and we’ll have them on their knees.”
"America has to move to our core interests now: Homeland and China."
"All he had to do was smile for the cameras, sign the minerals deal and have lunch. That’s it. He couldn’t do it. He failed his country and the relatively standard practice for an Oval Office meeting like this."
"There are now serious questions if we can even deal with him. He blew it. He had a one foot putt but was more interested in litigating issues that should be discussed behind closed doors (and have been) in public."
"It is in the national interest of the U.S. for there to be a peace deal. Now. Trump ran on this. It’s not a surprise."
"There will be no more money for war there. Not from us. Now is the time for peace."