'At least say thank you!' Trump official continues berating 'troublemaker' Zelensky
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who was in the Oval Office for last week's disastrous meeting with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, sought to set the record straight about the motivations of President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
"I've heard nonsense that this was a setup," Lutnick told CNN's Pamela Brown Monday. "We expected this to be a love fest. Really, it was just a love fest. But what happened is, President Zelensky came in and all he asked for was 'no concessions, security guarantees, reparations from Russia of $300 billion, give up no land, get them off our land,' and he kept going, 40 minutes before the cameras were in and 45 minutes once the cameras came in. Endlessly, relentlessly."
Lutnick added, "The president says, 'You're just messing with World War III. Stop it! Let's just talk peace, be a peacemaker. And he kept saying no, and it shocked us."...