Conservative sets off CNN squabble with Zelensky 'shake America down' accusation

A conservative panelist on CNN's "Table for Five" set off an uproar on Saturday morning after he accused Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky of taking advantage of the United States.

During a discussion on the contentious Oval Office meeting between Zelensky, Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance, where the U.S. leaders berated the leader of the wartorn nation, GOP strategist and member of "Black Americans for Trump" Melik Abdul unsurprisingly sided with the U.S. president.

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Sitting next to fellow conservative S.E. Cupp, who earlier characterized Trump and Vance as "Two losers on barstools" due to their boorish behavior, Abdul stated, "This isn't the first time that Zelensky has seemed to kind of shake America down," which caused host Abby Phillip to repeat incredulously, "Shake America down?"

"When you come before the United States of America in the Oval Office, then you need to show––," he continued until the eye-rolling Cupp sarcastically interrupted, "Where there is so much decorum."

After it was pointed out the way in which Elon Musk has presented himself before the press in the same room, Abdul attempted, "You come on there being disrespectful and you are going to find out the response to it and he was disrespectful. That is what he was, disrespectful and J.D. Vance was right to call him out."

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