In a follow up to his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, President Trump sat down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other European and NATO leaders on Monday in hopes of striking a peace deal. But according to some CNN journalists and experts, during CNN News Central, Trump was actually working on behalf of Putin and Russia, acting like their puppet, rather than looking out for the lives being lost.
After blaming Trump for getting off topic during a media spray with talk of U.S. elections and crime in Washington, D.C., rather than the journalists who asked, co-host Boris Sanchez teed up CNN global affairs analyst Kimberly Dozier to suggest Trump needed to obtain Putin’s “approval” ahead of making any moves:
SANCHEZ: The president was also asked about mail-in voting and a couple of other issues, but we'll focus on the big headline, which is Kim, that President Trump said that as soon as these meetings wrap, he's going to call Vladimir Putin and perhaps schedule a trilateral meeting.
DOZIER: Yeah. The fact that he feels he feels he's got to check in with Putin right away and that, just as this meeting is taking place, we get news that Putin is saying, ‘By the way, no NATO troops on the ground in Ukraine, that is unacceptable.’ Still feels like Trump needs Putin's approval in a way that's got to be very disturbing to Zelenskyy sitting there.
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