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(NewsNation) — Former Fox News big Bill O'Reilly says President Donald Trump is deliberately avoiding disapproval of Russian President Vladimir Putin arsenic a calculated strategy to secure a bid woody successful Ukraine.
"Trump knows that Putin is ne'er going to halt murdering people, unless Putin tin locomotion distant with immoderate benignant of victory, immoderate benignant of redeeming face," O'Reilly said Monday connected NewsNation's "On Balance." "That's wherefore Trump isn't attacking him. That's wherefore Trump adjacent patronizes him to a definite extent, not condemning him."
O'Reilly said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fails to recognize basal dialog tactics, saying "a 10-year-old would" admit that "if your force is much almighty than you, and you privation the force to halt murdering your people, you person to marque immoderate accommodations."
O'Reilly's comments followed Trump's contentious Oval Office meeting with Zelenskyy, and Monday's announcement that the Trump medication is halting U.S. weapons assistance to Ukraine.
"Zelenskyy is going to suffer immoderate territory" astatine war's end, O'Reilly said.
Despite criticizing Zelenskyy for being "in mode implicit his head," O'Reilly defended the Ukrainian president's intentions, saying, "I judge that Zelensky wants the champion for his country. He's conscionable retired of his league. He doesn't recognize the information that surrounds him."
O'Reilly concluded by expressing optimism that Trump would yet unafraid a deal, though helium acknowledged Democrats would apt knock immoderate statement reached.
