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Donald Trump said that war between Ukraine and Russia must end, reiterating his disapproval for sending more aid overseas as the Senate seeks to move forward with a package to provide emergency funding for Ukraine and Israel.
“We got to get that war settled and I’ll get it settled,” Trump, the Republican front-runner for the 2024 presidential nomination, said at a campaign rally Saturday in Conway, South Carolina.
He called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “the greatest salesman in history” and sought to suggest that the US could be “out hundreds of billions of dollars” if Ukraine made a deal with Russia — which invaded the country two years ago — and “all of a sudden they don’t want to deal with us anymore.”
Trump’s possible return to the White House is increasingly a factor in Ukraine’s war to reclaim Russian-occupied territory after a counteroffensive faltered, he fell out with his top military commander and US military aid got stuck in Congress.
Trump raised Ukraine only briefly as he pursued his campaign to deliver a knockout blow to Nikki Haley, his last major Republican challenger, on her home turf in the Republican primary in South Carolina on Feb. 24.
It was his first visit to the state since his victory in New Hampshire’s primary in January.
As he closes in on the nomination following wins in Iowa, New Hampshire and this week in the Nevada caucus, Trump and his allies have pressured Haley to exit the race.
Haley’s aides have said she intends to stay in the contest through South Carolina and Super Tuesday next month, when more than a dozen states vote.
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