Bakari Sellers: Putin Is Playing Trump ‘Like a Fiddle’

BORELLI: “Today, I was damn proud to be an American, damn proud to be a Trump supporter. And I‘m optimistic of the future of that region.”
SELLERS: “Well, let me just let me also say this. I mean, my memory goes back pretty good, and we remember how we got here. We remember the fact that Bill Clinton negotiated for nuclear weapons to be taken out of Ukraine, and we remember how Boris Yeltsin and Bill Clinton actually had a deal that was reached so that there was no incursion and no invasion from Russia and Ukraine. That‘s memory. And then you had Vladimir Putin come across. You know what my memory also tells me? Vladimir Putin is a thug. He‘s a war criminal. He should not be trusted. And he plays Donald Trump like a fiddle. All four of those things are true. And so when you have those four things and you‘re dealing with this thug, you‘re dealing with this war criminal and you‘re dealing with someone who‘s not able to display that strength on a world stage, the problem is, yes, we all want peace around this table. Democrat, Republican, black, white, New York, South Carolina, we all want peace around this table. The problem is that you don‘t have even honest brokers at the table. And that, for me, is a fundamental problem where you have people that are — they just have their self-interest at heart. And I am proud to be an American every day. But you know what I don‘t want? I don‘t want American troops on the soil. I want to support Ukraine and everything we do, but until Donald Trump, not Pete Hegseth, but Donald Trump can unequivocally tell me that he‘s not marching down the path of Lindsey Graham and others and U.S. boots won‘t be on the ground — “
ROGIN: “I don‘t think you have to worry about it. I agree with everything you said. I don‘t think you have to worry about Trump — “
SELLERS: “You agree with me? Foreign policy?”
ROGIN: “Yes. Except for the part about U.S. troops — “
PHILLIP: “We‘ll get to the part about boots on the ground in the next conversation.”