XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics
On 7/15/2025 9:00 AM, Bradley K. Sherman wrote:
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| Fox News' Brit Hume Says Donald Trump 'Got Played By Putin'
| ... <https://www.cbs19news.com/entertainment/fox-news-brit-hume-says-donald-trump-got-played-by-putin/article_1822c2a5-404e-54d3-b75c-152bddfec00c.html>
Even a Fox News analyst could see that President Donald Trump “got played” by
his Russian counterpart in the talks to end the Ukraine war.
In a Monday episode of Special Report, Brit Hume said Trump got dragged along by
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s pretense that he was interested in securing a
peace deal to finally end the war in Ukraine. Trump threatened on Monday to impose tariffs on Russia if negotiations don’t conclude within 50 days.
“It’s clear, from what the president himself has said—although he wouldn’t put
it this way—that he got played by Putin and dragged on for months, and he was being jollied along under the impression that Putin had obviously given him, that Putin wanted to end the war and was prepared to negotiate,” Hume said.
“And it’s pretty clear now that Putin didn’t want to end the war where we are,”
he added. “He had more conquest in mind, and perhaps wanted his whole original
purpose of taking Ukraine to be fulfilled.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/even-fox-analyst-thinks-trump-got-played-by-putin/
So, Kremlin Girl / Bit of Nothingness will whinge about the source, The Daily Beast, but note that they are accurately reporting on what Fox's Brit Hume said.
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