'Criminal': Trump Is Pressuring Ukraine To Help Him In The Midterms

Sky-high diesel prices are a result of Trump’s war of choice against Iran, but Trump repeatedly blames Ukraine as he again cozies up to Russian dictator Putin.

Senior White House Correspondent, HuffPost

Seven years after trying to extort Ukraine into helping him with his own re-election campaign, President Donald Trump appears to be at it again, pressuring Ukraine to stop fighting against Russia’s bloody nightly attacks targeting civilians in order to help Republicans in the coming midterms.

“I think I think it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president,” he told reporters on Saturday after lashing out at Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy for having attacked Russia’s oil infrastructure. “Zelenskyy could have settled this war many times. Many, many times. And he chooses not to.”

The pressure campaign, alongside a deal Trump cut with Russia to import diesel, is intended to help vulnerable Republicans whose standing has been battered by high fuel costs.

Yet the political Hail Mary, beyond giving morally fraught assistance to a Russian dictator waging a war of conquest which has killed tens of thousands of civilians, also appears unlikely to meaningfully lower fuel costs ― a combination that has drawn condemnation from the very Republicans it is intended to help.

“We need to lower diesel prices, but I don’t think we need to be making a deal with Russia to do it,” Iowa Republican congresswoman Ashley Hinson, who is running in a tight race for Senate in the typically red state, said at a debate on Tuesday night.

Former Representative Mike Rogers, the Republican nominee for Senate in Michigan, similarly said he opposed the diesel deal.

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