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Ukrainian President To Trump: Please Stop Saying My Country Is Corrupt


Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky would like President Donald Trump to lay off the trash talk, please.

During an interview with CNN correspondent Christine Amanpour on Saturday, Zelensky expressed dismay over Trump’s repeated claims that Ukraine is “corrupt”; a claim that Trump invokes when defending his withholding of U.S. military aid to the Eastern European country.
“That’s not true. That’s not true,” the Ukrainian president responded when Amanpour brought up Trump’s comments.
Zelensky said that he was “very open” with Trump about the issue when they met at the U.N. in September.
“I told him that we fight this corruption,” said Zelensky. “We fight with …read more

Source:: TPM

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