Peter Baker: Even as Trump Is Criticizing Putin, He Feels the Need to ‘Both-Sides It’ and Also Attack Zelenskyy

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BAKER: “Zelenskyy has played Trump a little bit more cautiously in the last few weeks since that meltdown in the Oval Office, along the lines that European allies have advised him trying not to -- to poke the bear too much, not to anger Trump too much. But there's no love lost there by President Trump for President Zelenskyy. So I think even as he's criticizing President Putin, which is a new thing, really, he feels a need to sort of both-sides it and make sure to also say President Zelenskyy is at fault.”