Volodymyr Zelensky was installed by the United States.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
The sources show Zelensky won Ukraine's April 2019 presidential election with about 73% of the vote, and a fact-check rejects the claim that the CIA or US installed Zelensky or any regime in Ukraine as an unsupported conspiracy theory. The claim matches the passage's wording, so it is graded as made.
What was said
… The East may, but not the West. What does Ukraine give that the West can't do itself? Um, this is it. It's existence. Because of this, you know, it's a colonial government there. They have no independence. They haven't had in a long time. Um, Zelensky was installed by the, uh, by the U.S. Um, that's the last, the only thing, the only use that Ukraine has to the regime is being this golem against, uh, against the Russian Federation. …
The Pete Quiñones Show · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Contradicts. Antidisinfo's fact-check states that the CIA did not install any regime in Ukraine and calls the claim that Zelensky was advised by CIA mentors and installed by the US a conspiracy theory unsupported by any facts.[2]
Context. Yahoo/BBC-based coverage reports Zelensky won Ukraine's April 2019 presidential election with 73% of the vote, defeating incumbent Petro Poroshenko, which describes a domestic electoral win rather than US installation.[4]
Context. OpenSecrets reports on Zelensky's election and on lobbying operations for his campaign, but does not state that the US installed him.[5]
Context. The 2019 FactCheck.org and CNN pieces describe Zelensky as elected president of Ukraine and as the target of Trump's call, with no indication of US installation.[1][3]
Context. The 2025 substack piece and the Russian SVR coup allegations describe US involvement in Ukraine's 2014 government and alleged plots against Zelensky, but they are partisan or unverified claims and do not establish that the US installed Zelensky.[6][7][8]
Sources
8 sources: 1 fact-checker, 5 not rated, 1 tier 2, 1 rated low
- 1Trump's Inaccurate Claims About His 'Perfect' Callfactcheck.org · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2The CIA did not install any sort of regime, either in N. ...antidisinfo.net · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 3Trump impeachment inquiry: A visual timelinecnn.com · tier 2 · cited for: context
- 4Meet Volodymyr Zelensky, the comedian turned wartime ...yahoo.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 5Ukrainian election shakes up foreign influence operations targeting the USopensecrets.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 6Ukrainian Political Scientist Exposes The Ukraine Proxy War.the307.substack.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 7Coup in Ukraine? Russia claims US-UK planning to oust ...ai.economictimes.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 8Coup in Ukraine? Russia claims US-UK planning to oust Zelensky and replace him with former Ukrainian Army chiefeconomictimes.indiatimes.com · rated low for factual reporting by Iffy.news · cited for: context
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