National security adviser Mike Waltz said during an interview over the weekend that the notion that the Trump administration ambushed Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky was “absolutely false” and that it was his demeanor and behavior during the meeting the derailed things.
Waltz made the remarks during a Sunday CNN interview with Dana Bash on “State of the Union” when asked about how things could get back on track between the United States and Ukraine after the blowup in the Oval Office on Friday.
“What was so, I think, stunning to all of us in the Oval Office was that it was not clear Zelensky was going to go to negotiations at all, that he would ever be able to negotiate with Putin, and whether he shared our goal of ending this war,” Waltz said.
“So, what I made clear, as Secretary Rubio and I said, look, this cannot proceed, was that this was a huge missed opportunity…
