Paul Roderick Gregory: It's time for Trump to call Ukraine's 'pro-Russian rebels' what they are - Feb. 10, 2017

Paul Roderick Gregory: It’s time for Trump to call Ukraine’s ‘pro-Russian rebels’ what they are

By Paul Roderick Gregory.

Published Feb. 10, 2017 at 5:58 pm

(FILES) Russian-backed separatists wave a Russian flag as they storm the regional administration building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on April 6, 2014.

Photo by AFP

Donald Trump’s interview with FoxNews’ Bill O’Reilly during the halftime at Sunday’s Super Bowl has been ridiculed as the ramblings of an uninformed President. In the interview, Trump appropriately refused to take O’Reilly’s bait to label Vladimir Putin a murderer (and basically rule out any negotiations) but followed, inappropriately, with strained moral equivalence on state murder. Then Trump honed in on his key question concerning Vladimir Putin, the Ukraine war, and upcoming negotiations:

O’REILLY: But within 24 hours of you on the phone with the Russian leader, the pro-Russian forces step up the violence in Ukraine.

TRUMP: Yes.