SiriusXM’s Megyn Kelly said Monday on her show that Democrats had “shat all over” the U.S. mineral deal with Ukraine before the Oval Office showdown between leaders.
President Donald Trump determined Friday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is “not ready for peace if America is involved,” following their heated discussion, during which Zelenskyy was seen arguing with both Trump and Vice President JD Vance. After the dispute, Democrats took to the media and social media to criticize the meeting, saying Trump was Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “puppet.”
On “The Megyn Kelly Show,” Kelly called out both Democratic Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly and Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy for their comments before the meeting, questioning whether Zelenskyy’s behavior was influenced by their remarks.
“Why? Why would he have handled it this way? Well, perhaps we need look no further than the Democratic senators with whom Mr. Zelensky met before he went to the White House. I mean within the hour,” Kelly said.
The SiriusXM host played a video in which the Arizona senator was seen saying that he had told Zelenskyy that the American people were not only “behind him in this struggle” but also that he felt “uncomfortable that this now appears to be sort of a business transaction.”
Kelly also read Murphy’s post to X prior to the Oval Office meeting, in which he wrote that Ukraine “will not support a fake peace agreement where Putin gets everything he wants and there are no security arrangements,” alongside a picture of him, Zelenskyy, and other officials.
“You see what he did,” Kelly said. “His post accompanied a picture of Zelensky at a conference table with ‘Oh, who’s that across from him? It’s Senator Murphy, who’s right across from him.’ This was within one hour of Zelensky’s White House meeting.”
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“The Democrats bashed the two phase deal Trump was arranging of one, a financial agreement, and then, two, a ceasefire deal as, ‘A fake peace agreement with no security arrangements to Mr. Zelensky’ right before he went to the White House. ‘It’s fake. There’s no security arrangements. It’s a business deal. I’m uncomfortable with it. I want assurances.’ I guess, in Chris Murphy’s case, that the people that you’re not going to sign it.”
The U.S. reportedly confirmed its deal to jointly develop mineral extraction projects in Ukraine on Feb. 25, weeks after negotiations with the foreign country. Prior to the reports, Zelenskyy had said there could be no peace deal without Ukraine’s involvement, according to the BBC, but he previously told Reuters on Feb. 7 that he wanted to make a deal with the U.S. regarding minerals to help end the war.
During the meeting, Trump pushed back after Zelenskyy criticized the U.S. for not attempting to halt Russia, leading Trump to warn him that he was “gambling” with World War III as the U.S. has provided billions in aid.
“Then he [Zelenskyy] went to the White House to sign what was clearly phase one. No, it wasn’t the ultimate ceasefire. It wasn’t the security arrangement deal. It was the first part of it, which was the minerals deal. Which is the thing that Trump has been saying all along will be, in essence, a form of U.S. security, because if we’re investing hundreds of billions of dollars trying to extract these raw earth materials from Ukraine, his theory is that Vladimir Putin will not mess with Ukraine.
“He’ll be messing with our interests. Then when it comes to boots on the ground, the Europeans are going to speak to that in phase two of this deal,” Kelly said. “But it was shat all over by Chris Murphy and others … The Democrats, now that it devolved to a fight, have reverted to their tried and true accusation that Trump is no more than Putin’s puppet, that this whole thing was an ambush by Trump of Zelensky because he wants to do the bidding of Vladimir Putin.”
Since the meeting, Zelenskyy took to X to thank the U.S. and its leaders, telling Fox News’ Bret Baier that he was still open to signing the deal with the U.S.
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