Graham said it’s now a major question whether the United States can continue to support Ukraine if Zelensky remains president.
“The question for me is, ‘Is he redeemable in the eyes of Americans?’ Most Americans witnessing what they saw today would not want Zelensky to be their business partner, including me, and I’ve been to Ukraine nine times since the war started,” he said.
He said Zelensky needs to apologize to Trump or “accept the consequences.”
“What I want him to do, I guess, is just to say, ‘I screwed up big time for my country and for the U.S. relationship and if I had to do it over again, I’d have done it differently and I’m sorry,’” Graham advised.
“If he can’t say that, then Ukraine you need to either send us somebody new we can deal with or just accept the consequences,” he said.
Trump scolded Zelensky for not showing enough gratitude for American support in the war, warning him: “You’re right now, not really in a very good position. You’ve allowed yourself to be in a very bad position.”
“You’d don’t have the cards right now,” he added bluntly.
Zelensky shot back: “I’m not playing cards.”
