MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell can’t handle the truth—Biden failed allies. While speaking with National Security Adviser John Bolton the liberal media host tried to pin the mess in Ukraine on Trump.
“Just to go back to the Trump years….because that’s when Ukraine became so politicized as part of an impeachment,” Mitchell claimed. She went on to link today’s conflict with the call between Trump and Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy. A stretched, even for the left. “There was one call in particular, the so-called ‘perfect call’ Trump had with, you know, Zelenskyy, which, you know, certainly telegraphed to the Kremlin that they could do what they wanted with Ukraine, that America would not stand up,” she scoffed.
The segment got heated as Bolton tried to explain reality to the delusional host. Finally, Bolton cracked, interrupting her completely, “IT HAS FAILED!”.
Transcript
JOHN BOLTON: And we did not act appropriately early. I think we should have had more American forces in Ukraine, not to fight the Russians, but to train with the Ukrainians and to show those Russian generals looking across the border and seeing Americans within flags, “I wonder what that means?” Biden took that off the table, saying there would be no American forces involved and he got nothing for it.
ANDREA MITCHELL: Just to go back to the Trump years because you had difficulty –
BOLTON: Why not?
MITCHELL: Well, why not? Well, why not is because that’s when Ukraine became so politicized as part of an impeachment.
BOLTON: That’s exactly right.
MITCHELL: And as part of decisions and conversations. There was one call in particular, the so-called “perfect call” Trump had with, you know, Zelenskyy, which, you know, certainly telegraphed to the Kremlin that they could do what they wanted with Ukraine, that America would not stand up.
BOLTON: Well, I think Putin was undoubtedly waiting for a second Trump term, but he’s getting, effectively, almost what he would have expected then. This is going to be a victory for Russia.
MITCHELL: You think what the Biden administration is doing, rallying NATO allies, getting –
BOLTON: It has failed.
MITCHELL: I mean, truly, Ambassador –
BOLTON: The President says it has failed.
MITCHELL: But it has not failed to rally the untied – the NATO allies, they’ve never been stronger.
BOLTON: Mario Draghi –
MITCHELL: I was just in Munich and I can tell you that there was no space among those allies.
BOLTON: There’s plenty of space. Mario Draghi, the Prime Minister of Italy, said on Friday that if the EU had to impose economic sanctions, he hoped it would not include the energy sector. That’s a huge hole in NATO unity.
And as I say, what [German Chancellor Olaf] Scholz has done today is only a paper maneuver that will last a couple months. We’ll see how long that lasts.
MITCHELL: Okay, I would just suggest that the Italian leader is not the key player here and what we’ve seen from France, from the U.K., from Germany, a new chancellor, has been to at least stand up and be united, you know, as a presence, as a NATO presence.
BOLTON: I’ll agree the U.K. is on our side.
MITCHELL: Okay, we agree on something. John Bolton, it’s a pleasure. Thank you very much for being with us.