MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace asserted that Donald Trump ‘doesn’t care a s*** about democracy’ during a heated critique concerning the president’s meeting with Vladimir Putin.
Trump said he made ‘some headway’ during his 2.5-hour-long meeting with Putin on Friday.
However, Wallace was furious Trump met with the Russian leader at all, seething at the top of her show on Friday.
‘Having had the privilege of interviewing Ukrainians, it’s difficult to watch our country’s president stand with the individual responsible for all that suffering and all that death, it’s atrocious,’ she expressed.
Wallace then recited examples of ‘the terror’ that Putin had inflicted on the people of Ukraine.
‘Knowing that at any moment, Russia could launch an attack anywhere in Ukraine, it’s like witnessing them strive for an American president’s support,’ she continued.
Wallace further remarked that all the progress made had been ‘undone by a president who doesn’t care a s*** about democracy, isn’t concerned about our allies, nor about the sovereignty of democratic allies’.
The host, now inclined towards the left, previously served as the White House Communications Director during George W. Bush’s second presidential term and was the Communications Director for his 2004 re-election campaign.
MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace (pictured center) asserted that Donald Trump ‘doesn’t care a s*** about democracy’ in a heated critique concerning the president’s meeting with Vladimir Putin
Trump said he made ‘some headway’ during his 2.5-hour-long meeting with Putin on Friday
Trump left the world hanging announcing no details and answering no questions about his ‘extremely productive meeting’ with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the future of Ukraine.
What was clear was that there was no immediate ceasefire or peace deal to end the Ukraine war out of Friday’s Anchorage, Alaska talks at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.
‘We didn’t get there,’ the usually ebullient president acknowledged, ‘but we have a very good chance of getting there.’
In an extremely uncharacteristic move, Trump allowed Putin to speak first – at what had been billed as a bilateral press conference – and then didn’t answer a single question before shaking hands with Putin again and sauntering offstage.
Their whole appearance before the press lasted just 12 minutes following more than three hours of private conversation.
‘I’m going to start making a few phone calls and tell them what happened. But we had an extremely productive meeting, and many points were agreed to, and there are just a very few that are left,’ Trump said.
He added, ‘Some are not that significant. One is probably the most significant.’
In his opening statement, Putin flattered Trump by saying his assessment about the Ukraine war was true and that it never would have happened under Trump’s watch.
Trump left the world hanging announcing no details and answering no questions about his ‘extremely productive meeting’ with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the future of Ukraine
‘Today when President Trump’s saying that if he was the president back then there will be no war. I’m quite sure it would indeed be so, I can confirm that,’ Putin said in Russian through a translator.
Putin also placed blame on former President Joe Biden for the U.S.-Russia relationship unraveling, not his February 2022 invasion of America’s ally Ukraine.
‘I’d like to remind you that in 2022, during the last contact with the previous administration, I tried to convince my previous American colleague that the situation should not be brought to the point of no return when it would come to hostilities,’ Putin said, adding it was a ‘big mistake.’
Putin noted that the U.S.-Russia relationship had soured ‘to the lowest point since the Cold War.’
‘I think that’s not benefiting our countries and the world as a whole,’ Putin said. ‘It’s apparent that sooner or later we had to amend the situation and move on from the confrontation to dialogue.’
But Putin’s comments were mostly backward-looking, a glaring indication that the U.S. and Russia remained apart on the crucial issues that could lead to a ceasefire in Ukraine.
The Russian leader didn’t back down on his claims that the Ukrainian invasion was justified.
‘As I’ve said the situation in Ukraine has to do with frontal threats of our security,’ Putin said.
President Donald Trump rolled out the red carpet for his first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin of his second term – the first time a U.S. leader has come face-to-face with Putin since Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine
‘At the same time we’re convinced, that in order to make this settlement lasting and long-term, we need to eliminate all the primary roots, the primary causes of that conflict,’ the Russian leader added.
Putin added that the U.S. needed to ‘consider all legitimate concerns in Russia’ and he agreed with what President Trump said at the meeting ‘that naturally the security of Ukraine should be insured as well.’
When Putin announced his ‘special military operation’ in February 2022 – which has now dragged on for three and a half years – he claimed Ukrainians were being ‘subjected to abuse and genocide’ by their democratically-elected government that, under Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, became more western-aligned.
Putin, a former KGB agent, has long set his sights on increasing Russia’s borders to more closely resemble those of the USSR.
‘I’m going to hope that the agreement we’ve reached together will help us to that goal and will pave the path toward peace in Ukraine,’ Putin continued, warning against provocations from Ukraine and Europe.
Trump was set to call Zelensky and NATO leaders immediately after the meeting but details were not immediately available if that occurred.
