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"Do you even own a suit?" The debacle in the Oval Office Friday should be condemned by every member of congress. Were you proud of your president and vice president? Since when is Russia the good guy? We owe President Zelinski our undying gratitude, not a made-for-TV reality show. How shameful. "All of this ignores the much more plausible explanation of what happened today: It was a setup. Trump and Vance appear to have entered the meeting with the intention of berating Zelensky and drawing him into an argument as a pretext for the diplomatic break. Why should anyone have expected anything different? Trump has been regurgitating Russian propaganda, not only regarding Ukraine, since before Zelensky even assumed office. In 2018, the year preceding Zelensky’s election, he defended Russia’s seizure of Crimea; he has repeatedly refused to acknowledge Russian guilt for various murders; and he has even stuck to Russian talking points on such idiosyncratic topics as the Soviets’ supposedly defensive rationale for invading Afghanistan in 1979 and their fear that an 'aggressive' Montenegro would attack Russia, dragging NATO into war," writes Jonathan Chait of the Atlantic. STAND UP FOR US!!