Trump Team Meets with Zelensky's Political Rivals

Saturday, March 08, 2025

Two of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's political rivals have confirmed that they have been in contact with members of US President Donald Trump's entourage following a Politico report published on Thursday in which an alleged bid to remove Zelensky from office was revealed. According to Politico, "secret discussions" have been held about holding snap presidential elections in Ukraine that could potentially unseat Zelensky before a final peace deal is signed.

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Over 100 protesters gathered outside the Capitol ahead of Trump's joint address to Congress, slamming his administration for what they say is a descent into fascism.

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-- Politico (@politico.com) March 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM

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Zelenskyy must be muy threatening to the Orange Sissy.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-03-06 03:15 PM

Well who didn't expect this to happen.

Z meets and communicates with Democrats in private, so I guess Trump sees it a fair.

None of Zelenskyy's rivals has anywhere near the support of voters he has, 63%... which is a lot better than Trump's here, as he is under 50 percent.

And his main competitor agrees with Zelenskyy on not have an unsecured Cease Fire or holding a vote.

This is all still Trump's hatred for the Ukrainian Pres for not being the scumbag Trump is' for refusing to help Trump manufacture dirt on Biden, which got him impeached.

Still wrong, different day. He met with a group of Dems and Republicans.... mostly Republicans.

You can't expect 1Lump to know anything more than what Musk allows him to know.

... in which an alleged bid to remove Zelensky from office was revealed ....

Another item on Pres Putin's Ukraine want-list checked off.

- 1Lump

obtuse
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adjective
1.
annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand.

Hi Corky
This is straight out of the GOP playbook: Nixon's aides convinced Saigon to stop the 1968 Paris Peace talks, Reagan's aides convinced Tehran to release the hostages after Carter lost to get a good deal (Gary Sick's "October Surprise"), and now this. And remember, Putin sent in a Spetsnaz team to decapitate the leadership in Kiev (which failed). Link: www.bbc.com

Nice reminder of the obviously unpatriotic POS's Republicans have always been.

Thanks.

Fake ----- Bitch Proves Jeff is a ----------- MAGAT ------.

"Nixon's aides convinced Saigon to stop the 1968 Paris Peace talks, Reagan's aides convinced Tehran to release the hostages"

And let's look at how those things worked out.

South Vietnam fell to the Communists.

Iran is still run by the Ayatollahs.

Republicans did these sabotages and double crosses, and America has nothing to show for it.

When is the orange pedo going to meet with the leaders of Wagner Group?

Hi Reinheitsgebot: Perhaps like the recent crypto-currency summit, Trumpf will invite the Wagnerites, Proud Boys, Oaf Keepers, and even Hannibal Lecter to the White House: "Congratulations, the late, great Hannibal Lecter. We have people that are being released into our country that we don't want in our country." (Donald Trumpf, 12 May 2024).

They'll have lots to talk about. I wonder besides "da," how much more Russian does Trumpf know?

This outrage is ironic since US already fomented a revolution followed by a coup and ethnic cleansing in Ukraine. Zski would still be playing with himself for nickles without that.

Putin(the-------------'s boss) could end the war immediately by gtfo of Ukraine.

Ukrainians are dying today because ------- decided to stop sharing intel.

Magat scum are the worst people in the world. I WISH there was a hell for you scum to go, but no, we only get to suffer the ---- your needs.

Magat scum should real and truly ---- themselves.

Do me Daddy, Do me Hard.

Faster Daddy,.. Faster.

Who's Yer Daddy?

@#17 ... Who's Yer Daddy? ...

If your current alias is asking that question of Pres Trump?

The answer seems to be an easy one ...

Pres Putin looks to be Pres Trump's daddy.

Why ask the obvious?

@#16 ... Ukrainians are dying today because ------- decided to stop sharing intel. ...

Yup.

Russian strikes continue in Ukraine as U.S. pauses sharing intelligence with Kyiv
www.cbsnews.com

... Russian strikes on Ukraine killed at least 20 people, officials said Saturday, as heavy aerial attacks continued after the U.S. stopped sharing satellite images with Ukraine.

The decision to withhold intelligence and military aid came on the heels of a tempestuous White House visit last week by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Without U.S. satellite imagery, Ukraine's ability to strike inside Russia and defend itself from bombardment is significantly diminished.

At least 11 people were killed in multiple strikes on a town in Ukraine's Donetsk region late Friday. The attack also damaged eight apartment blocks in the town of Dobropillya, which is close to the front where Russian troops have been making steady advances.

Zelenskyy said at least five children were among the injured in Dobropillya.

"Last night, the Russian army fired two ballistic missiles at the center of Dobropillya," he said. "After emergency services arrived at the scene, they launched another strike, deliberately targeting rescuers.

It is a vile and inhumane intimidation tactic to which the Russians often resort." ...

Yet, Pres Trump seems to be siding with Pres Putin's atrocities.

Why?

America should send Benedict Arnold Trump to Siberia to rot in some g*dd&mn Gulag!

Now he's encouraging his puppet master to pour on the bombs on Ukraine now that Ukraine isn't getting Patriot air defense systems and not getting any US satellite data and with Musk screwing around with Ukraine's Starlink comms. And Maxsr's now switched sides and giving Putin the satellite info that it had been giving to Ukraine!

What a great bloody negotiator the turncoat president is!

Lamplighter. Trump's been on the KGB list of potential influential Russian assets to be groomed since the 1970s when he began consorting with Ivana, his future wife, and the daughter of Czechoslovakian communist secret police informants. Don, Jr, learned just speak, fluent Czech from his secret communist informant grandfather.

All 3 of Ivana's Trump kids were fully dossiered by KGB allies their entire lives and groomed to trust the Russians as their friends. And knowing how well the KGB trained its agents to befriend and groom potential assets, one can only guess to what extremes the KGB & Putin would go to have s famous and "rich" bloviator like Trump groomed to become an asset.

Heck, when Trump's liquidity was in jeopardy, Putin had the Bank of Russia lend Trump 100s of millions, which is a sure way to get Trump's attention.

Trump would never have qualified for a security clearsnce but he has to have one. But it's a real risk to the free world letting him have one.

@#21 .... Trump's been on the KGB list of potential influential Russian assets to be groomed since the 1970s when he began consorting with Ivana, his future wife, and the daughter of Czechoslovakian communist secret police informants. Don, Jr, learned just speak, fluent Czech from his secret communist informant grandfather. ...

Got links?

More from the cited article ...

... According to Politico, the Trump team reached out to Poroshenko and Ukraine's former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko to discuss whether Ukraine could hold snap presidential elections, which it would be glad to see Zelensky lose. Trump claimed last month that Zelensky's domestic approval rating stood at just 4%, when it is in fact far higher than Trump's.

A poll held by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology in February indicated that 63% of Ukrainian respondents approved of the president's policies, and his poll numbers are likely to improve following an outpouring of support on social media after last week's unprecedented clash with Trump at the White House. ...

Yulia Tymoshenko
en.wikipedia.org

... Tymoshenko is the leader of the Batkivshchyna (Ukrainian: ) political party. She supports Ukraine's integration into the European Union and strongly opposes the membership of Ukraine in the Russia-led Eurasian Customs Union. She supports NATO membership for Ukraine.[5] ...

Petro Poroshenko
en.wikipedia.org

... During his presidency, Poroshenko led the country through the first phase of the war in Donbas, pushing the Russian separatist forces into the Donbas Region. He began the process of integration with the European Union by signing the European Union"Ukraine Association Agreement. Poroshenko's domestic policy promoted the Ukrainian language, nationalism, inclusive capitalism, decommunization, and administrative decentralization.

In 2018, Poroshenko helped create the autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine, separating Ukrainian churches from the Moscow Patriarchate. His presidency was distilled into a three-word slogan, employed by both supporters and opponents: armiia, mova, vira (English: military, language, faith).[6] As a candidate for a second term in 2019, Poroshenko was defeated by Volodymyr Zelenskyy. ...

Curious.

So we're openly interfering in another country's election?

Trump has no tact.

He's an oaf.

So we're openly interfering in another country's election?

Lewzer has sent investigators to Kiev and they can't believe what they are finding.

Is it that email republicans have been claiming will expose the Biden crime syndicate?

Or Zelensky was really born in Uzbekibeckistanstan.

Probably Hillary's emails.

#28
Doff headgear, bow noggins, and ruminate on Darwin Award Winner Herman Cain.

Zelenskyy suspended elections until the war is over, and by his actions, he doesn't the war to end anytime soon. He's a dictator at this point and he needs to go.

"We have always been at war with Zelensky."

Zelenskyy suspended elections until the war is over, and by his actions, he doesn't the war to end anytime soon. He's a dictator at this point and he needs to go.

Nope. Wrong again. We've been over this many times. Educated yourself so you don't look even more stupid than you already do.

The------------- is helping Putin kill Ukrainian civilians.

bsky.app

Nope. Wrong again. We've been over this many times. Educated yourself so you don't look even more stupid than you already do.

#33 | Posted by YAV at 2025-03-09 10:22 PM | Reply | Flag

The problem is, you're playing a word game. Zelenskyy doesn't want the war to end because as soon as it does, he has to face an election. It's not in his best interest for the war to end. I say let him further destroy his country without the help of the USA.

Zelenskyy suspended elections until the war is over, and by his actions, he doesn't the war to end anytime soon. He's a dictator at this point and he needs to go.

#31 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Wrong as usual.

These regularly scheduled elections were disrupted by the state of martial law declared in 2022, at the start of the full-scale Russian invasion. This can be expected from a country fighting for its very existence, where significant portions of its territory are occupied. Martial law is established as a concept in the Ukrainian Constitution and last updated by the national legislature in 2015, before Zelensky entered politics.

Article 83 of the Ukrainian Constitution states that if the term of the Verkhovna Rada expires under martial law, it shall automatically be extended until a new Rada is seated following the end of martial law. Article 19 of Ukraine's martial law legislation specifically forbids conducting national elections. Thus, for Ukraine to conduct elections while under martial law would be a violation of legal norms that predate Zelensky and the full-scale Russian invasion.

Kox acknowledged this in a subsequent conversation with Olha Aivazovska, the head of Ukraine's top election watchdog, stating that "it is clear that [Ukraine's] constitution does not allow you to organize elections when martial law is applicable."

foreignpolicy.com

I other words, STFU you ignorant pile of s(*&.

You're wrong. About every. Every time. S. T. F. U.

"These regularly scheduled elections were disrupted by the state of martial law declared in 2022, at the start of the full-scale Russian invasion"

No ---, dumbass.

Did your mom have any children that lived?

You stupid f*&^. Instead of quietly slinking away like the degenerate terard you are, you pick a single line your little limp d(*& brain can latch on to and stammer a ridiculous response confirming the original assertion.

That link blows your entire ignorant nonsense argument out of the water because you're too ---- stupid to bother looking into things you're told to believe.

Idiot.

"Zelenskyy suspended elections until the war is over"

And THEN you accused others of playing with words?!? After leaving out the salient part???

Comedy Gold, Jerry!

Let me explain this to you like you're five because that's the intellectual level your worthless pile of s(*& a&& operates at.

Zelensky didn't "cancel" elections. He's not a "dictator."

The elections cannot be legally be held per the Ukrainian Constitution and legal statutes.

Now, again, STFU you ignorant pile of s(*&.

You're wrong. About everything. Every time. S. T. F. U.

Did that finally get through to lfthndmoron? Is he licking his wounds, rocking back and forth in the fetal position trying to convince himself it isn't true?

#41 | Posted by jpw at 2025-03-10 03:08 PM | Reply | Flag
Annnnnnnd, just like that, you're back to licking windows and eating crayons. If you had a brain, you'd take it out and play with it.

Pace yourself, It's going to be a long 4 years.

JPW was the -------- who told us that Trump was going to jail bEcAuSe rOlLiNg sToNe!!!! Don't look now SaltyDog, but Trump brought the documents back home.

Pace yourself, It's going to be a long 4 years.

I don't think it's going to be 4 years
It's either over completely for the United States, or there's going to be one hell of a backlash.

@#43 ... JPW was the -------- who told us that Trump was going to jail bEcAuSe rOlLiNg sToNe!!!! ...

I don't agree that was the opinion of JPW. But, I'll let him fend for himself on that.

... Don't look now SaltyDog, but Trump brought the documents back home. ...

Yeah, I posted that link a few days ago. So, do you think bringing those classified docs back to the bathroom of Mar-A-Lago is A Good Thing?

And, speaking of "salty dog" ...

you had to know this was coming ...

Procol Harum - A Salty Dog (1969)
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Lyrics excerpt ...

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...
[Verse 1]
All hands on deck, we've run afloat
I heard the Captain cry
Explore the ship, replace the cook
Let no one leave alive

Across the straits, around the horn
How far can sailors fly?
A twisted path, our tortured course
And no one left alive

[Verse 2]
We sailed for parts unknown to man
Where ships come home to die
No lofty peak, nor fortress bold
Could match our captain's eye

Upon the seventh seasick day
We made our port of call
A sand so white, and sea so blue
No mortal place at all

[Instrumental part]

[Verse 3]
We fired the guns, and burned the mast
And rowed from ship to shore
The captain cried, we sailors wept
Our tears were tears of joy!

Now many moons and many Junes
Have passed since we made land
A Salty Dog, the seaman's log
Your witness, my own hand
...