Former Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk has claimed in a letter that the recent assassination attempt on US presidential candidate Donald Trump might be linked to Ukraine. Trump narrowly survived an attack at a Pennsylvania rally, where a bullet grazed his ear. Medvedchuk suggests that Ukrainian President Zelensky, whom he accuses of leading a “criminal regime,” views Trump as a threat to his power and might have orchestrated the attempt to prevent him from winning the election. With tensions high and Trump gaining popularity, these allegations add a dramatic layer to an already intense political landscape.
In a letter to the former US president and Republican presidential candidate, Viktor Medvedchuk hinted that there might have been a connection between Ukraine and the assassination attempt on US presidential candidate Donald Trump reports The Times of Israel.
At this weekend’s Butler, Pennsylvania rally, Trump almost survived being shot in the ear by an assassin’s bullet. The Secret Service shot and killed the American attacker, who was twenty years old. His intentions are not officially disclosed.
“Dear Mr. Trump, you have become a personal enemy of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi [Vladimir] Zelensky, and this scoundrel will stop at nothing to prevent you from winning the presidential election,” Medvedchuk wrote on Tuesday. “I think that there will be a Ukrainian trace in the case of the assassination attempt on you.”
According to Medvedchuk, resolving the conflict would call into doubt the legitimacy of the current Kiev government, thus they have an interest in seeing it out. When Trump takes back the White House, Zelensky’s “criminal regime” would lose US backing since it “deserved punishment for its crimes,” he said.
“The day before the assassination attempt on you, Mr. President, the head of Ukrainian military intelligence stated that the Ukrainian authorities had attempted to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin, and a few days earlier, the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine promised to destroy Ukrainians who advocate peace with Russia,” Medvedchuk told Trump.
The Republican presidential candidate has stated time and time again that he would broker an early resolution to the crisis in Ukraine. However, Medvedchuk also pointed out that doing so would mean “the loss of power by the Nazi regime of Zelensky and his American curators from the Biden administration.”
After the June 27 debate, which rocked the Democratic party and prompted calls to replace President Joe Biden on the ticket with someone else, Trump was already leading in the polls. After the botched assassination attempt, the Republican’s popularity skyrocketed.
Zelensky declared on Monday that his administration had “a strong relationship with the Republican side of Congress and the US political class,” thus he was “not afraid” of a change of leadership in Washington.
Prior to his arrest in April 2022, Medvedchuk served as the leader of the Opposition Platform – For Life party, which is the second-largest group in the Ukrainian parliament. Three months later the party was outlawed, and in September Medvedchuk was sent to Russia in return for a number of POWs from Ukraine.
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