Mercedes Schlapp to Newsmax: War in Ukraine Has to End

Mercedes Schlapp to Newsmax: War in Ukraine Has to End

Mercedes Schlapp to Newsmax: War in Ukraine Has to End

Mercedes Schlapp brushed aside media criticism aimed at the Trump administration for negotiating with Russia, telling Newsmax on Friday that President Donald Trump’s team needs to know what the terms are on both sides to end the war in Ukraine.

Schlapp, former White House director of strategic communications in Trump’s first term in office, interviewed national security adviser Mike Waltz at the Conservative Political Action Conference earlier Friday and talked about the “tough negotiations” that have to happen.

“Well, we talked about how President Trump has expressed frustration with [Ukrainian] President [Volodymyr] Zelenskyy, how he basically backtracked on the raw mineral deal,” Schlapp said on “Finnerty.”

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