Donald Trump told Fox News he would simply tell Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky: “No more, you gotta make a deal.”
Then he would go to Russian Vladimir Putin and threaten him with more support for Ukraine: “If you don’t make a deal we’re going to give them a lot, more than they ever got if we have to.”
Trump added that Putin is “wounded” but “let’s see how it all turns out, one way or the other.”
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.