Trump’s Ukraine comments cost him support from GOP senator
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Former President Donald Trump lost the support of one GOP senator when he failed to call Russian President Vladimir Putin a “war criminal” during Wednesday night’s CNN town hall.
Sen. Todd Young (R-IN) said he would no longer support the former president in the Republican primaries after Trump failed to support Ukraine explicitly during a town hall.
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“I think President Trump’s judgment is wrong in this case. President Putin and his government have been engaged in war crimes. I don’t think that’s been disputed,” Young told CNN on Thursday.
When asked if it concerned him that the Republicans’ leading candidate for president would not designate Putin as a war criminal, Young said it did.
“Of course, that’s why I don’t plan to support him for the Republican nomination,” Young said. When asked for more specific reasons, Young said: “Where do I begin?”
Trump argued that calling Putin a “war criminal” would only make matters worse in Ukraine and make it more challenging to end the conflict.
“If you say he’s a war criminal, it’s going to be a lot tougher to make a deal to make this thing stopped,” Trump said. “If he’s going to be a war criminal, people are going to grab him and execute him. He’s going to fight a lot harder than he’s fighting under the other circumstance.”
Trump also failed to choose a side in the conflict between the two countries but claimed he would end the war between the countries in just one day if he were in command.
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“I don’t think in terms of winning and losing. I think in terms of getting it settled so we stop killing all these people,” Trump said.
Young was the sole member of Indiana’s conservative congressional delegation not to receive an endorsement from Trump in the 2022 midterm elections. However, he still secured another six years in office without it.