In the latest amazing Trump administration, Ukraine, director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, moves in a series of internal war time in Kiev and said they were leaving American values.
Her comments shot the government of the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zensky at a time when he is deeply vulnerable, whereby house speaker Mike Johnson asks on Sunday if he cannot remain in office if he cannot quickly recover the infringement with President Trump after their explosive oval office meeting.
In an appearance on FOX News Sunday, Gabbard has raised a problem that Trump has also yielded: the urge to Zensky to stand before elections. He declared the state of siege immediately after the Russian troops invaded his country in 2022.
'You have the cancellation of elections in Ukraine. You have political parties that are silent from silence or even criminalized in prison or are thrown into prison, “she said – cracks in the regime.
'You have the freedom of religion – churches are closed. You have political opposition that is silenced, you have total government control over the media. We could make a whole laundry list with issues that are against the values of democracy and freedom, “she went on.
'So it really raises the question, as Vice -President Vance again said in Munich, it is clear that they are against Putin. That is clearly clear.
'But what do they really fight for, and are they tailored to the values they claim to keep in accordance with us? The values for which President Trump and Vice President Vance stand for, and those are the values of freedom, peace and real security. '
“What do they really fight for, and are they tailored to the values they claim to keep in accordance with us?” DNI Tulsi Gabbard said on Sunday in the last administration attack on Ukraine
She said that Zensky 'claimed to stand and fight for the cause of freedom and democracy' when the reality was 'precisely the opposite'.
The 'values' attack comes after Zensky was praised during his speech of 2022 as a hero to a joint meeting of the congress.
Gabbard's comments were partially referred to the law of Ukraine in 2024 that prohibit organizations with ties with the Russian Orthodox Church, which supported the Russian invasion. Nevertheless, concern about religious freedom has brought up.
Her explosions followed Trump that Zensky called a 'dictator' because he was not in the midst of the war, a remark that Trump did not repeat in the run-up to his angry white house meeting where he destroyed Zensky for not accepting a cease-fire for his country.
Gabbard was confirmed to her position this month, despite democrats and a few Gop critics who said she had a history of parroting Kremlin talk points.
In her last comments, she collected much of the criticism that Moscow has thrown in Ukraine to justify the continuous invasion.
Asked if the way in which she described Ukraine and the situation came down to 'choosing between the least of two evils', Gabbard brought the risk of 'Second World War'. Trump has also emphasized that threat, along with focusing on killing the battlefield, as a way to insist on a quick cease -the Fires that Ukraine fears will lock up Russian profit.
“Or he has to come to his senses and come back to gratitude, or someone else has to lead the country to do that,” said speaker Mike Johnson about Zensky on NBC's 'Meet the Press'
Host Shannon Bream asked Gabbard to Vladimir Putin after she had attacked Ukrainian government policy
Gabbard defended Trump on television while the president on his West Palm Beachbaan gambled
Since the blowup, Zensky has repeatedly pronounced after JD Vance accused him of being ungrateful
'What I concentrated on is what President Trump is focused on, which is peace, sees the world through a very clear picture and ensuring that the President has honest and good loyalty negotiations with both countries to put an end to this war.
“That is what it is about, that lives are at stake. The potential of the Second World War, if this war continues and escalate, is what's at stake, “she said.
Host Shannon Bream told the DNI that that is certainly not things that you would say that Russia or Putin is celebrating or donating his own people. Putin is in power and dissidents and journalists for a quarter of a century are routinely locked up. Opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in an Arctic prison last year.
'That's right. I would not make that claim and it is clear that that is not the case, 'Gabbard, 43, a former Democrat in Hawaii who became a member of De Gop and Trump responded.
Gabbard was confirmed this month 52-48, in which Ukraine Hawk and former Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said: “The nation does not have to worry that the intelligence assessments that the president receives are infected by a director of National Intelligence with a history of alarming.”
She pulled Pushback online after the blowup of the White House when she thanked Trump for his relentless leadership in standing up for the interests of the American people and peace. What you said is absolutely true: Zensky has been trying to drag the United States to a nuclear war with Russia/WW3 for years, and nobody called him on it. '
She repeated the Second World War -Appeal to Fox, referring to a conflict where the American and NATO bondmen already deliver weapons, while Putin has used an estimated thousand North Korean troops to try to push a Ukrainian advance on its territory.
Also on Sunday, house speaker Mike Johnson said that the US did not 'abandon' Ukraine, after the Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said that Zensky might have to resign after blowing up with President Trump.
'Well, something has to change. Or he must come to his senses and return to the table in gratitude, or someone else has to lead the country to do that. I mean, it's up to the Ukrainians to find out, but I can tell you that we are – we recognize peace by strength, “he said.
Vice President JD Vance has defeated Zelensky in the Oval Office and asked 'Did you ever say' thanks '?' and accused him of campaigning for the 'opposition' when he visited a Pennsylvania -Munition factory during his trip to the US
In contrast to Vance, who voted for a Ukraine assistance package of $ 60 billion when he was in the Senate, Johnson finally fell behind the deal at a time when he was politically vulnerable.
But on Sunday he put the heat on Zensky on NBC's 'Meet the Press'.
“President Trump has brought the power back to the White House. We knew this moment would come. We have worked hard to come, and now it's here. But we need these parties to come along, and we need President Zenskyy to do what is needed. This war has drugs for far too long. He has lost hundreds of thousands of people, including women and children. We have to put an end to it. And I think our European allies hope that is the case, and we are, “he said.
Host Kristen Welker asked him if he would like to see Vladimir Putin resigning.
“I would like to see Putin being defeated, frankly,” he replied. “He is an opponent of the United States. But in this conflict we have to bring it into this war. It is in everyone's interest. '
He rejected the idea that the US again coordinates to Russia and responded to his own comments from the past that raise alarms that Russia could march through Europe if Ukraine was not defined.
'Mr. Speaker, do you still believe that Ukraine is an ally to support the United States about Vladimir Putin and an axis of evil? He was asked.
'Yes. It is quite absurd for everyone in the media or Democrats to somehow proclaim that President Trump, the White House or Republicans are in the congress on Putin's side. It's a joke. We understand that he is a dangerous opponent and he is the one who provoked the war, “he said.
Witte Huis National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, who was present for the White House meeting that went off the rails, also aroused doubts about Zensky without completely calling him.
He told CNN's 'State of the Union' that there was a need for a leader who can deal with us, can eventually deal with the Russians and end this war, and if it becomes clear that the personal motivations of President Zensky or political motivations are varied to end the fights in his country, then I think we have a real presty. '
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders shot the pressure on Zensky when he was asked about Johnson's newest difficult lecture.
“I think that's a horrible suggestion. Zenskyy leads a country and tries to defend democracy against an authoritarian dictator, Putin, who invaded his country. And I think millions of Americans are ashamed, ashamed that you have a president of the United States who says that Ukraine has started war, that Zenskyy is a dictator – he has it exactly, “Sanders said.
'The people of Ukraine have lost tens of thousands of F soldiers. Their cities are bombed while we speak, and it is our job to defend the 250 -year tradition we have to be the democratic leader of the world, not to turn their backs on a struggling country that tries to do the right thing. '
