Trump Comes to Putin's Defense in Attack on Media 'Degenerates'
Earlier DU thread: Putin Made Donny Dollhands' Big, Fat, Beautiful, Special Envoy WAIT EIGHT HOURS To See Him.
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Source: The Daily Beast
Trump Comes to Putin’s Defense in Attack on Media ‘Degenerates’
The president is once again criticizing the “Fake News.”
Kenneal Patterson
Breaking News Intern
Updated Mar. 16 2025 5:27AM EDT
Published Mar. 15 2025 6:52PM EDT
President Donald Trump took aim at the “Fake News” again Friday and called journalists “sick degenerates” for suggesting that his special envoy Steve Witkoff waited eight to nine hours to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Several outlets reported that Witkoff left Moscow on Friday without a ceasefire deal after Putin rejected Trump’s proposal. Trump has said that he’s working to get Russia and Ukraine to end the war, and that he and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky outlined a proposal earlier this week. Although Trump claimed that the discussions were “productive,” Putin voiced doubts on Thursday, leaving Ukrainians to worry that the Kremlin wasn’t going to agree to lasting peace.
Those reporting on the story looked at flight tracking data and Russian reports to discover that Putin met with Witkoff late Thursday, even though the envoy arrived hours before. Photos prove that Witkoff’s motorcade arrived around midday, but he did not end up fully delivering the proposal until that night.
Trump, however, took to Truth Social to call the reporting dishonest; he said there was “no wait whatsoever.” The president conceded that there were in fact meetings with “other Representatives of Russia” that “took some time,” but that they were very “productive.”
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Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-comes-to-putins-defense-in-attack-on-media-degenerates/
Alternate link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-comes-putin-defense-attack-225251887.html
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