Biden Does More for Ukraine ‘Than Any of His Predecessors’

• A high aide to Volodymyr Zelenskyy praised Biden in a tweet Thursday.
• Biden “does extra” for Ukraine “than any of his predecessors,” Andriy Yermak wrote.
• Former President Trump was impeached for withholding navy assist from Ukraine for political causes.

A high aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy praised US President Joe Biden on Thursday.

“Grateful to [the US], our dependable companion,” the aide, Andriy Yermak, wrote in a tweet. “The @POTUS does extra for [Ukraine] than any of his predecessors.”

—Andriy Yermak (@AndriyYermak) March 17, 2022

Biden’s predecessor, former President Donald Trump, was impeached in 2019 and charged with abuse of energy and obstruction of Congress. The impeachment centered on Trump’s efforts to strongarm Zelenskyy into launching political investigations into the Bidens by withholding almost $400 million in navy assist to Ukraine and dangling a White House assembly.

The maintain on the safety help was lifted after Politico reported on Trump’s actions and House Democrats launched an investigation into the matter.

At the middle of the impeachment was a July 2019 cellphone name between Trump and Zelenskyy, wherein Trump pressured the Ukrainian president to open investigations into purported corruption by Biden and his son, Hunter, forward of the 2020 US election.

Trump additionally requested Zelenskyy to analyze the nonsense conspiracy principle that Ukraine interfered within the 2016 election, and that Ukraine is in possession of a secret Democratic e mail server.

Yermak, as a senior advisor to Zelenskyy, was aware about Trump’s and his aides’ efforts to power Ukraine to analyze the Bidens.

Trump, for his half, has insisted that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine wouldn’t have occurred if he was nonetheless in workplace.

“If I had been in Office, this lethal Ukraine scenario would by no means have occurred!” he stated in an announcement final month.

But days earlier, he praised Russian President Vladimir Putin’s justification to launch the battle as “genius” and “savvy.”

His feedback stood in distinction to these of US officers, who warned that Putin’s recognition of two Kremlin-backed separatist areas in Ukraine was half of an effort to create a false pretext and invade the nation.

Trump was repeatedly criticized all through his presidency for making public statements and coverage selections that benefited Russia and damage Ukraine.

In 2018, he shocked American allies by eschewing years of US international coverage and telling G7 leaders that the territory of Crimea was part of Russia. His remarks had been particularly jarring to the leaders of different member states on condition that it was Russia’s choice to annex Crimea in 2014 that led to its expulsion from the G8.

But Trump advised reporters earlier than that yr’s G7 summit that he believed Russia needs to be admitted again into the alliance, and he additionally reportedly wondered aloud on the summit why world leaders sided with Ukraine over Russia.

Trump additionally took Putin’s aspect over the US intelligence group’s throughout a bilateral summit with the Russian chief in 2018, saying he did not “see any cause why” Russia would have interfered within the 2016 election.

“I’ve President Putin. He simply stated it is not Russia,” Trump stated. “I’ll say this: I do not see any cause why it could be.”

The former president walked again his assertion following harsh blowback from allies, saying he misspoke and that he meant to say he did not see any cause why it would not be Russia that meddled within the election.

As the Russian offensive in Ukraine was starting to unfold final month, he blamed the scenario on the 2020 US election, which he known as “rigged.”

“Well, what went flawed was a rigged election and what went flawed is a candidate that should not be there and a person that has no idea of what he is doing,” Trump stated on Fox News, including that the invasion “by no means would have occurred with us — had I been in workplace, not even thinkable. This would by no means have occurred.”