Marco Rubio’s whistlestop tour of four major TV networks on Sunday appears to have left him a little hazy on what exactly Donald Trump actually said ahead of the president’s much-panned Alaska summit with dictator Vladimir Putin.
“We never said there was gonna be a deal coming out of the meeting,” the Secretary of State told Fox News of Trump’s historic sit-down with the Russian president, held Friday primarily to discuss terms of a prospective ceasefire to the Kremlin’s three-year war on Ukraine.
Trump had in fact told the network just hours before the summit took place, “I won’t be happy if I walk away without some form of a ceasefire” and that “I think we’re close to a deal,” which the U.S. president had previously boasted he could secure on “Day One” of his second stint at the Whit