Marco Rubio Offers An Unconvincing Defense Of Trump’s Putin Summit
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The secretary of state pointed to few actual specifics while touting alleged progress.
During multiple press interviews on Sunday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio touted alleged progress at President Donald Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, while offering few specifics to back up his claims.
In appearances on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and ABC’s “This Week,” Rubio wouldn’t name a single penalty that Putin would face for failing to agree to a ceasefire in Russia’s war with Ukraine – despite Trump previously suggesting that there’d be “consequences” if no such deal was reached at Friday’s meeting.
Similarly, Rubio declined to detail any explicit concessions that the U.S. is demanding from Russia as part of a potential peace accord, arguing that revealing such information in the press would be detrimental to negotiations.
“I wouldn’t name them on your program. Why would I do that?” Rubio snapped when ABC’s Martha Raddatz pressed him on the latter.
“I’m not going to disclose those things,” Rubio added in an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker.
