Trump Didn’t Know Where U.S. Troops Were Deployed

“At an Oval Office meeting with then-Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko in 2017, Donald Trump asked his national security adviser if U.S. troops were in Donbas, territory claimed by Russian-backed separatists,” The Guardian reports.

Writes then U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, in her new book: “An affirmative answer to that question would have meant that the United States was in a shooting war with Russia.”

She added: “I pondered whether it was better to interpret Trump’s question as suggesting that the commander-in-chief thought it possible that US troops were fighting Russia-led forces, or instead as an indicator that the president wasn’t clear which country was on the other side of the war against Ukraine. Either way, it was disconcerting that he did not seem to know where we had our troops – his troops – deployed. I could only imagine what the Ukrainians were thinking.”