'Shameful day for the U.S.': Expert stunned after Trump sides with 'war criminal' Putin

Longtime Washington Post columnist David Ignatius was almost speechless on MSNBC on Wednesday morning after watching Donald Trump spew flagrant falsehoods about Russia's invasion of Ukraine while siding with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin.

Speaking in Florida on Tuesday, Trump told reporters, "This could have been settled very easily, a half-baked negotiator could have settled this years ago," before pressing for elections in Ukraine, falling in line with Putin's hope to depose President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Speaking with "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough, Ignatius cut right to the chase with, "Yesterday was in many ways a shameful day for the United States."

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"As you just said, standing up to Russian aggression for many decades has been at the center of American foreign policy and at the center of our identity as a country," he continued. "Yesterday two big things happened. First, the United States in the meeting in Saudi Arabia normalized a regime headed by somebody who's been designated as a war criminal and all of the crimes of this war, the killing, the just brutal assault on Ukraine –– illegal, brutal assault –– was, in effect, washed away."

"Then to have that followed by President Trump in Florida with the shocking comment that the war was really the fault of the victim, the war was really the fault of Ukraine, 'You never should have started it?' I can't believe that a president of United States would have said something as factually wrong and insulting as that."

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