Analysis: Zelensky’s wish to show how the U.S. and Ukraine were allied was simply a pressure point Trump could put to his own uses. But Zelensky’s presidency outlasted Trump’s, and the new American administration has been the partner that he always wanted.
that such a meeting was contingent upon an announcement of a Biden investigation, as transmitted to Zelensky’s team by a Trump appointee.
“Whenever you would like to come to the White House,” Trump said a bit later, “feel free to call.” It was his first mention of a direct invitation. All of this came to a head in September 2019, just as Zelensky and Trump met for the first time on the sidelines of the United Nations’ general assembly in New York.
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