There was an enormous amount of subtext to the conversation between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky when the two met in New York last month. Falling on the same day that Trump’s White House had released a rough transcript of a July 25 conversation between the two — a document that articulated Trump’s request for Zelensky to launch probes aiding Trump politically — lesser details of the conversation were pushed to the background.
As when Trump told Zelensky that he should finalize a peace agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“I’ve heard you actually have, over the last fairly short period of time, you’ve really made some progress with Russia,” Trump said to Zelensky. “I hear a lot of progress has been made. And just keep it going. Be nice to end that whole disaster.”
View the complete October 7 article by Philip Bump on The Washington Post website here.