Ex-UK defense minister: Trump’s head-scratching claims

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Trump’s accusations against Ukraine, calling Zelenskyy a dictator and blaming him for the war’s start, are “bizarre,” former UK Defense Minister Tobias Ellwood says.   #Trump #Ukraine

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00:00I mean how do you respond to this claim that we hear time and time again from

00:04the Trump administration that this isn't really America's problem and they're fed

00:08up with paying this bill they seem to be saying that they've paid for this

00:12single-handedly it's all their problem all of a sudden and they don't want it

00:15to be their problem why can't the Europeans deal with it on their own how

00:18do you respond to all of that well there's a lot that I'm packed there and

00:22you're absolutely right this this the messaging the drumbeat that we're

00:25getting from Washington has been head-scratching it's been bizarre to

00:29suggest that it's now Zelensky who's the dictator not Putin that it's Ukraine

00:36that actually started this war not Russia this is to turn everything on its

00:41head and Trump knows this but he's persuasive and the American people polls

00:47are now showing that they support this new narrative that's come about this

00:51this this this post truth

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