'Just flat wrong': MSNBC host buries Trump over new Ukraine comments
Donald Trump's attempt to blame Ukraine and its leaders for the Russian invasion during a press conference on Tuesday was torn apart on MSNBC on Wednesday morning as completely at odds with reality.
On Tuesday, the president, who has regularly heaped praise upon Russian President Vladimir Putin, told reporters that the leaders of Ukraine have no right to complain that they are being excluded from peace talks being headed by neophyte Secretary of State Marco Rubio with Russian officials.
As part of his comments, Trump insisted, "You know, they're upset about not having a seat. Well, they've had a seat for three years and a long time before that. This could have been settled very easily, a half-baked negotiator could have settled this years ago," before adding, "So when they're worried about not being seated, you mean somebody that should have gone in and made a deal a long time ago? And I think I have the power to end this war, and I think it's going very well."
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After sharing the clip from Trump's comments on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," co-host Joe Scarborough told his clearly appalled panel, "There's so many things wrong with that, I know you've got a fact check on it. I will say first of all, the idea that they could have just given away a little land to Vladimir Putin? Wrong."
"He [Putin] wanted Kyiv, he wanted to be in Kyiv in three days. He wanted Odessa. He wanted to rebuild the old Russian empire by seizing their capitol, Kyiv and Odessa," he continued. "So the idea that –– that is so factually inaccurate. There's not a single military historian, there's not a single person who's covered this war that would actually say that's accurate. But there's so many other things in. those statements that are just flat wrong factually."
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