Former US Chief of Staff: Trump mistrusts Zelenskyy

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00:00Sure. And I mean, you know, up until now, he's tended to regard President Zelensky as

00:05being the difficult party here. Do you think he's perhaps having a bit of a rethink? Do

00:10you think perhaps there is a bit of a rethink happening in the Trump administration about

00:15how to approach President Putin, for example?

00:18If there's a rethink, I think it has to do with a relationship with Putin, not with Zelensky.

00:22I think they're pretty firm in the fact that they don't trust Zelensky. Look, there's a

00:26long history that isn't well known internationally. And this is one of my frustrations, especially

00:31when I deal with my European friends, is that Ukraine has been and continues to be one of

00:37the most corrupt places on the face of the planet. We actually had special rules on the

00:41books here in the United States about dealing with Ukraine, even when it came to U.S. foreign

00:47aid. It is and was a very corrupt place. And that colors, I think, a lot of Trump's opinions

00:53about Zelensky and about Ukraine, generally speaking. I don't think that is going through

00:58a rethink here today.