FROM DAILY CALLER: Democrat California Sen. Adam Schiff struggled Friday on CNN’s “The Lead” to say whether President Donald Trump deserves credit for attempting to create peace between Ukraine and Russia.
Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Anchorage, Alaska Friday to negotiate a potential end to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Before Trump announced that no official deal was reached, CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Schiff about the president’s attempt. Tapper also pointed to how former President Joe Biden’s strategies on Ukraine had failed.
The meeting between Putin and Trump comes after the president continually called for peace and warned Putin about sanctions that could occur if negotiations did not begin.
“Look, I’m all for any attempt to bring an end to the bloodshed, but what would have been, I think, a far more successful strategy for the President was to have Ukraine’s back, to be leaning into providing material and military support to Ukraine, to give Ukraine the resources it needed to take out the trains carrying fuel going to the front, which have continued to feed the war,” Schiff said.
Asked about the Biden administration providing billions to Ukraine for aid and support, Schiff admitted “the Biden approach didn’t succeed,” saying that was likely because “it was too slow to provide enough material support to Ukraine to give Ukraine that military advantage it needed.”
He went o to criticize Trump, “But what the President has done since taking office has been to undercut that. We have a bipartisan bill, as you know, strongly bipartisan, to sanction Russia. The President hasn’t allowed that legislation to move forward, and the President’s own threat of imposing sanctions he withdrew on, at least until now. So I don’t think this is the successful negotiating posture Ukraine deserves.”
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