ESPN's Stephen A. Smith praised Trump for Russia-Ukraine negotiations, as one of the few prominent figures on the left to praise Trump.

Meetings in Alaska and Washington were high on pomp and low on breakthroughs, but there were two potentially significant developments.

Trump gave his assurance that no American soldiers would be sent to protect Ukraine as part of a peace deal with Russia

Stephen A. Smith argued that Democratic presidents Biden, Obama and Clinton are responsible for the Russia-Ukraine war breaking out, not Trump, during his podcast on Monday.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday pledged that American troops would not be on the ground in Ukraine — but provided little other insight into the scale of U.S. security guarantees as he pushes to end Russia’s war on its neighbor.

Her comments came after special envoy Steve Witkoff said following Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, that Russia had signaled it would agree to some kind of NATO-like Article 5 protections for Ukraine as part of a deal to end the war, but Ukraine could not join the alliance.

The latest: President Donald Trump accused Washington, D.C., officials of faking crime numbers “to create a false illusion of safety,” and confirmed the department is being investigated.

After days of high-level diplomacy in Alaska and the White House, the plan, if there is one, is to follow Putin’s lead. What a disaster.