President Donald Trump made a series of dubious claims about Ukraine and its leader as he seeks to negotiate an end to the country’s three-year war with Russia.
Trump’s relationship with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy publicly soured as Trump called Zelenskyy a “dictator” and said he “started” the country’s war with Russia, a claim we rated Pants on Fire. Zelenskyy accused Trump of spreading Russian disinformation.
Trump, who sent a team to Saudi Arabia Feb. 18 to begin negotiations that did not include Ukraine on ending the war, described Zelenskyy as a “modestly successful comedian,” who was only good at playing former President Joe Biden “like a fiddle.”
The White House did not respond to a request for comment. Here, we fact-checked six of Trump’s claims. […]
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As if Trumpists would care about facts. Trump said it, it must he true.
Don’t need to fact check anything he says when everything he says is a lie.
I mean… Do we really need to bother? He talked to his handler (Putin) and then knew exactly what to say. He’s parroting RU propaganda and it should be treated as such.
