Trump: Zelensky Passed on Deal, 'Decided To Fight' & Is 'No Angel'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : " Trump this past week said, "Zelensky -- I will say this, he wants to settle now.
38% : "We started pouring equipment... and they (Ukraine) had the bravery to use the equipment, but in the end, it's a war that has to be settled," Trump added.
32% : " Here's what Putin said in the televised comments: "I can't help but agree with (Trump) that if his victory had not been stolen in 2020, then maybe there would not have been the crisis in Ukraine that arose in 2022.
31% : But he also admitted: "Putin shouldn't have done it (launching the full-scale invasion)... and it has to stop." Crucially during the course of the interview Trump indicated that he would have taken that deal.
28% : He shouldn't have done that because we could have made a deal and it would have been a deal that would have been -- it would have been a nothing deal," Trump told Sean Hannity on Thursday.
28% : Trump has long maintained that had he been in office after 2020 the Russia-Ukraine war would have never started, as Putin would not have invaded.
22% : Trump also at one point said Zelensky is "no angel".
22% : Russian President Putin himself dropped a bomb on Friday, with the following (as CNN puts it): Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed Friday that "the crisis in Ukraine" might have been prevented if Donald Trump was in power at the time, saying he was ready to talk with the new US president about the conflict.
18% : Trump has long claimed that the war in Ukraine would not have happened under his watch, but Friday marked the first time Putin suggested the same thing - while also repeating Trump's false claim that the 2020 US election was "stolen.
8% : Trump further pointed out that his Democratic predecessor Joe Biden did a "horrible job" by allowing the war to start in the first place.

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