The Set-Up: Trump can't deliver on a peace deal because RUSSIA doesn't want peace; it wants Ukraine.

And so because of Trump's promises that only he can "fix it" and could do so in "one day," he and Vance (and with a little help from MTG's boyfriend) concocted a scheme to place all the blame on the failure of a peace deal on Zelenskyy instead of where it really belongs: Russia.

It also gives Trump an excuse to have Congress cut-off military funding for Ukraine, which he only supported during his first term after being backed into a corner when his attempts to first hold the aid hostage in exchange for political dirt on Joe and Hunter Biden were exposed (and which led to his first impeachment).