Remember when Pete Hegseth’s line on Ukraine was panned as a “rookie mistake”? His error has apparently become the official White House line.
As his White House meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart devolved into a stunning blowup, President Donald Trump leaned on a familiar refrain to explain his unique kinship with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
The U.S. president’s strained affairs with the Ukrainian leader stretch back to a single phone call in 2019.
Ukrainian officials reached out to senior White House officials desperate to get the deal back on track, but President Trump was unwilling to talk to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy further today,