Former member of Trump’s transition team Jan Halper Hayes says Trump isn’t backing Russia but simply wants a ceasefire in Ukraine.
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00:00I'd like to start by just looking at some of the language coming out of Washington in the last 24 hours or so.
00:06President Trump suggesting that President Zelensky is somehow jeopardizing the peace process
00:11because he won't recognize Russian control of the Crimean Peninsula.
00:16Jan, who does Mr. Trump view as the aggressor in this war, Russia or Ukraine?
00:21Well, he views both of them as aggressors.
00:24But here's the thing about understanding Trump, because people take him literally in the moment instead of understanding strategically.
00:36So he generally has four different strategies.
00:40If he's criticizing Zelensky, really the issue is why 11 years later is Zelensky now fighting for Crimea when he could have taken action
00:55or any previous politician could have taken action?
00:59So Trump tends to look at this and wonder why people think he's siding with Russia.
01:10He's not.
01:11What he wants is a ceasefire and some peace plan so that everyone can live without war.