Democratic members of Congress and Republican officials who have warned against Vladimir Putin’s autocratic regime blasted Donald Trump and JD Vance for publicly lashing out at Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky in a volatile Oval Office meeting over the embattled nation’s security from Russia’s ongoing war.
Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, who served as House impeachment manager during Trump’s first impeachment over threats to withhold military aid to Zelensky, said of Ukraine’s president: “The guy has balls.”.
“Let’s cut to the chase: The president of the United States is a coward who is Vladimir Putin’s puppet,” Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton, a Marine Corps officer, told CNN.
Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, who led a bipartisan congressional delegation with Republican Senator Lindsey Graham at the Munich security conference, called Trump and Vance “ventriloquist dummies for Putin.”.
“Unlike Donald Trump or JD Vance, I have traveled to Ukraine and seen firsthand the death and destruction wrought by Vladimir Putin against innocent people.
