Oct 18, 2026 · 5 min · 4 segments
President Trump has made decisions this week that bring back into question his relationship with Vladimir Putin. Calling for Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy to resign. Lifting the sanctions on Russia…
You know what I suggest? I suggest they get a new leader who can make a deal.
And remember, this is all happening right before the midterms when there is mounting talk again that at the very least Russia is funding or sending out propaganda aimed at helping Republicans.
Republican Senator Tom Tillis says it is clear Putin plans to use the diesel money to further the war.
Vladimir Putin wants to literally freeze them to death in the coming months.
The president needs to move forward with the sanctions bill that we sent him.
This agreement with purchasing Russian oil is essentially, I think, tarnishing Lindsey Graham's efforts to try and get the sanctions bill through.
I get it that he may be frustrated, but he needs to understand who the good guys are in this disagreement and who the bad guys are.
And it's not even close.
Russia, Russia, Russia.
If President Trump wants to end the strain of energy supplies, number one, get things right in Iran, and number two, recognize that it was Vladimir Putin, not Zelensky, that started this war.
And it's Vladimir Putin who owns the responsibility for energy prices to the extent that they come from that part of the world.
So while Trump continues to mock the people who say he's cozying up to Putin and Russia, these actions bring back into focus the unverified, and I'm stressing here, unverified 2017 so-called Steele dossier compiled by a former British intelligence officer alleging that Russian intelligence possessed salacious personal and financial information on Trump.
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You know what I suggest? I suggest they get a new leader who can make a deal.
And remember, this is all happening right before the midterms when there is mounting talk again that at the very least Russia is funding or sending out propaganda aimed at helping Republicans.
Republican Senator Tom Tillis says it is clear Putin plans to use the diesel money to further the war.
Vladimir Putin wants to literally freeze them to death in the coming months.
The president needs to move forward with the sanctions bill that we sent him.
This agreement with purchasing Russian oil is essentially, I think, tarnishing Lindsey Graham's efforts to try and get the sanctions bill through.
I get it that he may be frustrated, but he needs to understand who the good guys are in this disagreement and who the bad guys are.
And it's not even close.
Russia, Russia, Russia.
If President Trump wants to end the strain of energy supplies, number one, get things right in Iran, and number two, recognize that it was Vladimir Putin, not Zelensky, that started this war.
And it's Vladimir Putin who owns the responsibility for energy prices to the extent that they come from that part of the world.
So while Trump continues to mock the people who say he's cozying up to Putin and Russia, these actions bring back into focus the unverified, and I'm stressing here, unverified 2017 so-called Steele dossier compiled by a former British intelligence officer alleging that Russian intelligence possessed salacious personal and financial information on Trump.
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