Prominent GOP voices are blasting Volodymyr Zelensky after the Ukrainian president visited the battleground state of Pennsylvania to rub elbows with Dem Governor Josh Shapiro and speak negatively about the GOP presidential ticket.
“My feeling is that Trump doesn’t really know how to stop the war even if he might think he knows how,” Zelensky said. “With this war, oftentimes, the deeper you look at it the less you understand.”
Zelensky said that vice presidential candidate JD Vance was “too radical” because he believes that Ukraine must “make a sacrifice” by losing some of its territory to bring its war with Russia to an end.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz called Zelensky’s remarks “remarkably foolish.”
“Who the hell is Zelensky to be trying to interfere in our election?” Cruz asked. “The arrogance of this guy… And the guy, I’ve got to say, is an absolute moron for coming to the US six weeks before the election and attacking Trump and Vance.”
“I don’t care if Zelensky likes or dislikes what they have to say, if he had the sense God gave a cricket, he would have said on that question, ‘You know what? I’m not going to comment about US elections, that’s for the people of America to decide,’” he continued. “That would have been smart. But you know what, Kamala Harris is perfectly happy to use this guy as essentially a campaign prop. And as I said, it is absolutely infuriating.”
“Zelensky, this is just dumb on his part, because if Trump wins, he’s got a huge problem that just got bigger,” Cruz said. “And if Trump loses, you know, good luck trying to get Republicans to listen to what he has to say if he just behaves like a Democrat campaign activist.”
“I’ve never seen this happen in my entire life, and I think it really was a bad, bad mistake by Zelensky,” he added.
House Speaker Mike Johnson also criticized Zelensky, as well as Zelensky’s ambassador to the United States, who is said to have organized the trip.
“I demand that you immediately fire Ukraine’s Ambassador to the United States, Oksana Markarova,” Johnson said in a letter to Zelenskyy.
“As you have said, Ukrainians have tried to avoid being ‘captured by American domestic politics,’ and ‘influencing the choices of the American people’ ahead of the November election,” Johnson said. “Clearly that objective was abandoned this week when Ambassador Markarova organized an event in which you toured an American manufacturing site.”
“The facility was in a politically contested battleground state, was led by a top political surrogate for Kamala Harris, and failed to include a single Republican because — on purpose — no Republicans were invited,” Johnson continued.
“The tour was clearly a partisan campaign event designed to help Democrats and is clearly election interference,” Johnson said. “This shortsighted and intentionally political move has caused Republicans to lose trust in Ambassador Markarova’s ability to fairly and effectively serve as a diplomat in this country. She should be removed from her post immediately.”
House GOP members have opened up an investigation into Zelensky’s Keystone State visit.
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I’m seeking documents from the White House, Department of Defense, and Department of Justice regarding the Biden-Harris Administration’s misuse of government resources that allowed Zelensky to interfere in the 2024 presidential election.
If the Biden-Harris… https://t.co/fTijeoh6jG
— Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) September 25, 2024
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