"This man clearly believes peace will end his brief destructive political career — and he is right. The media have consistently portrayed this character as a Churchillian statesman. It’s balderdash. Time to give this clown the hook." David Catron
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The American Spectator "If you want to understand why last Friday’s Oval Office press conference between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky went off the rails, ignore most of what you are seeing in the corporate media. Anyone watching a video of the entire event, instead of the deceptively edited clips featured on most “news” sites, will see that neither the President nor the Vice President “ambushed” Zelensky. The first 39 minutes of the meeting were unremarkable, with President Trump attempting to be cordial despite the Ukrainian president’s Marvel Comics costume and pugnacious comportment.
"The argument erupted after a reporter suggested that Trump was “too closely aligned” with Vladimir Putin to negotiate a fair cease fire between Russia and Ukraine. The President answered, “If I didn’t align myself with both of them, you’d never have a deal.” The Vice President added that the last administration’s belligerent rhetoric had accomplished nothing positive and contended that a better path to peace was diplomacy. This set off Zelensky, who launched into a gratuitous lecture on the war, which he concluded with this disrespectful challenge: “What kind of diplomacy, JD, you are speaking about? What do you mean?” Vance responded thus:
"I’m talking about the kind of diplomacy that’s going to end the destruction of your country. [Zelensky attempts to interrupt] Mr. President, with respect, I think it’s disrespectful for you to come into the Oval Office to try to litigate this in front of the American media. Right now, you guys are going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because you have manpower problems. You should be thanking the President for trying to bring an end to this conflict.
"The combative Ukrainian president responded to that admonition by peppering Vance with a new round of asinine questions that eventually angered President Trump enough to interrupt. Incredibly, Zelensky then began to argue with him. This upset Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova so profoundly that she was on the verge of tears. This went on for a few more minutes until Trump threw his hands up: “All right, I think we’ve seen enough. What do you think? This is going to be great television. I will say that.” Not long thereafter, Secretary of State Marco Rubio informed Zelensky that he was no longer welcome in the White House.
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