European Leaders, Media Outraged At Trump-Zelensky Confrontation
Germany newspaper DIE WELT: “Zelensky puts Europe’s security at risk with his behavior.”
Europe’s political elites and leading media outlets are circling the wagons around Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky after his epic exchange with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office Friday.
European leaders, including the European Union Kommissars, were united in their support for Zelensky’s brash conduct inside the Oval Office. “European leaders pledged late Friday to stand by Ukraine in the wake of the contentious Oval Office meeting between” the two leaders,” the Associated Press noted.
This was too much for the delicate European elites to take — coming on the heels of Vance’s wake-up call in Munich. “European leaders already were shaken by Vance’s speech to the Munich Security Conference two weeks ago,” the news agency wrote.
Zelensky demands a ceasefire with guarantees that America will defend it. He’s not willing to budge on his position. What an annoying prick.
Trump puts him in his place. pic.twitter.com/Xk59lFYvq0
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) February 28, 2025
The White House meeting between the two began on an upbeat note, with President Trump complimenting the visiting leader on his make-believe military outfit and expressing an earnest desire to see an end to the carnage after three years of devastating war in Ukraine.
A visibly irritated Ukrainian leader started the heated exchange by rudely talking back to President Trump and Vice President JD Vance. Trump changed his cordial tone after Zelensky’s repeated interruptions and rude interjections.
Dring a 45-minute televised engagement in the Oval Office, Zelensky appeared bored and fidgety while Trump touched on issues of vital importance to his war-ravaged nation and people. A distracted Zelensky was seen incessantly rubbing his nose and scratching his ears throughout the meeting.
Trump used gambling metaphors to describe the reckless behavior of his Ukrainian counterpart. “You don’t have the cards right now,” president reminded. Zelensky was ‘gambling with World War Three,” he warned.
Zelensky had “overplayed his hand,” Trump told reporters after his abrupt departure. In a subsequent tweet he told Zelensky to “Come back when you’re ready for peace.”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 28, 2025
European media: Trump, Vance ‘trapped’ and ‘ambushed’ Zelensky
Europe’s leading media outlets pushed a narrative sympathetic to Zelensky, claiming that the unsuspecting Ukrainian leader was ‘trapped and ‘ambushed’ by his American hosts.
“Ukrainians think Trump, Vance ‘laid trap’ for Zelenskyy,” German state TV Deutsche Welle (DW) reported.
This line was parroted across the European media landscape.
“Trump and Vance set up Zelensky for Oval Office ambush,” the British newspaper Independent reported. “In scenes historic in their vulgarity, what resembled a verbal pub brawl broke out with Trump and Vance talking over Zelensky, leaving the Ukrainian president ambushed,” the daily claimed.
“J.D. Vance set a trap for the Ukrainian president, who declined to flatter Donald Trump,” the London-based Economist wrote. “When Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived at the White House on February 28th the America-Ukrainian relationship was fragile and uncertain. By the time the Ukrainian president left, it was shattered.” the business weekly added.
“Ukrainian politician says Zelensky was ‘attacked’ by Trump,” the BBC echoed.
The falling out between the two leaders could have devastating consequences for Ukraine, as country’s armed forces fight with their backs against the wall amid recent Russian advance.
“Ukraine’s president had been hoping to leave the White House on Friday after positive talks with Donald Trump, capped with the signing of a minerals deal giving the US a real stake in his country’s future, if not an outright security guarantee,” broadcaster observed. “Instead Volodymyr Zelensky faced an extraordinary dressing down in front of the world’s media.”
German weekly Der Spiegel accused the U.S. president of ‘applying the law of the jungle’ in his dealings with Kyiv.
Germany can’t count on the U.S. to outsource its defense needs, Der Spiegel whined. “The spat between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky shows that we are in a new world: the West’s former leading power can no longer be relied on,” the leading German magazine claimed.
Leading German daily: Zelensky puts European ‘security at risk’
There were still a few sane voices in Europe that calling out Zelensky for jeopardizing transatlantic relations. According to Germany’s leading newspaper Die Welt: “Zelensky puts Europe’s security at risk with his behavior.”
In less than ten minutes, an ungrateful Zelensky dismantled years of diplomatic efforts put in by the Europeans on behalf of his country.
“Volodymyr Zelensky’s U.S. visit is turning into a diplomatic debacle. In less than ten minutes next to US President Trump, Zelensky destroyed all of the [diplomatic] contortions performed by the Europeans that had previously given him a good negotiating position,” the daily added.
If you watch the full Trump-Zelensky press conference, it is very clear that Zelensky, not Trump or Vance, became the antagonist. Both POTUS and VP were very respectful and cordial until Zelensky very publicly ignited a firestorm.
It all starts at 40:30
1) Zelensky essentially… pic.twitter.com/xrM4cWSPny
— Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) February 28, 2025
Germany’s DW TV covered the reaction of European leaders:
European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, a former prime minister of Estonia, [said], “Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.
“We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the aggressor.”
Shortly after the clash at the White House, leaders from across Europe took to social media to express their support for Zelenskyy.
Germany’s outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz said, “Nobody wants peace more than the Ukrainians do.” While Germany’s conservative leader Friedrich Merz, Scholz’s likely successor after his party won last Sunday’s general election, posted: “We stand with Ukraine in good and in testing times. We must never confuse aggressor and victim in this terrible war.”
French President Emmanuel Macron, who visited Trump this week too, posted on X: “There is an aggressor: Russia. There is a people who are under attack: Ukraine.”
“Respect to those who, since the beginning, have been fighting. Because they are fighting for their dignity, their independence, for their children and for the security of Europe,” Macron added.
Among those who added their voices to the parade of European support for Ukraine were European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.
Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, toed the line, sending out a message of reassurance to the Ukrainian leader.
“Dear Volodymyr [Zelensky], we stand with Ukraine in good and in testing times,” he posted on X. “We must never confuse aggressor and victim in this terrible war.”
Hungary’s Orban: ‘Strong men make peace, weak men make war’
Words of support for the U.S. position came from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has long been calling for a negotiated end to the conflict.
“Strong men make peace, weak men make war,” Orban wrote on X. “Today President [Donald Trump] stood bravely for peace. Even if it was difficult for many to digest. Thank you, Mr.President!”
Strong men make peace, weak men make war.
Today President @realDonaldTrump stood bravely for peace. Even if it was difficult for many to digest. Thank you, Mr. President!
— Orbán Viktor (@PM_ViktorOrban) February 28, 2025
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DIE WELT has it right. All those Europeans who want to circle the wagons around Z will have to bring their check books. Z even lost Senator Lindsay Graham, the most ardent supporter of Z in the Senate.
They not only need to bring their checkbooks, but they need to bring their young people to die on the battlefield to fight for good old Ukraine. It’s Europe’s battle. Not ours.
Aw come on. I’m sure if we were ever invaded by Mexico, Ukraine would be the first to volunteer to come and help us. And all of Europe would be lined up to give us aid just like we helped them in WWII.
Wait, you are saying that we haven’t been invaded by Mexico? Could you have imagined the reaction if Trump simply stated “I am dealing with my own invasion and we need those resources here at the moment.” The offices of the entire MSM would be covered with exploded noggins.
In any case, Trump didn’t run on “Make Ukraine Great Again.”
Standing by Ukraine might be met with the NATO mandated level of support by the Europeans.
I don’t think Zelinskyy is too far off base. If Trump is demanding, rightfully I think, peace then Zelinskyy want’s to know who is going to enforce it. People forget that Ukraine gave up it’s nukes under assurances by Obama that the US would help protect them. There was no treaty but it was promised. They got burned once and don’t want it to happen again.
They did not “give up their nukes”.. The nukes belonged to the Soviet Union, not Ukraine. And considering what Zelensky is clearly capable of, thank God the little Nazi can’t get his hands on any.
And talking about promises, the US and the rest of the EU blatantly and deliberately lied about the Minsk accords and NATO, but that was to Russia so no harm, no foul in their eyes.
Not one penny more. No promises, no security guarantees. Let Europe deal with these strictly European problems and stop robbing us and our grandchildren so they can maintain their social welfare schemes for all the Muslims they’ve invited in..
Very good post. It sets the record straight on many points.
Ukraine wouldn’t have ita problems if it remembers Russia is the big dog in that region, and they need to stop trying be a big dog themselves.
>People forget that Ukraine gave up it’s nukes under assurances by Obama that the US would help protect them.
Didn’t that happen in the 90s, way before Obama?
Yeah, that was Klinton, the original Russian Stooge.
That’s probably a typo…but, it was Clinton who brokered Ukraine’s surrender of the Soviet nuclear weapons that were located in Ukraine after the Soviet Union’s collapse.
There were a LOT of mistakes we made – mostly Clinton, but also mistakes by both Bushes as well – after the fall of the Soviet Union. The West did far too little to help stabilize Russia and its economy after the collapse and ultimately, this is what allowed Putin to come to power. Then, the aggressive, needlessly belligerent expansion of NATO only added fuel to the isolation Putin felt, real or imagined. And finally, the color revolution, paid for and orchestrated ENTIRELY by Obama’s CIA set into motion the events we’re facing today.
Whatever culpability the US has for the mess the Ukrainian people are in today, it has less to do with the Clinton nuclear deal than it does with the meddling and antagonizing of Russia by Team Obama. That’s the reality.
budapest memorandum dealing with, iirc, 200 warheads was 1994.
Ah, yes. The sanctimonious Europeans will defend the free world while simultaneously allowing their countries to be overrun with 7th century savages and imprisoning people for speech.
Should have maintained occupation for 150 years following WW2
151 to be safe.
For the last eighty years the world has expected the United States to open its check book and underwrite their countries, and we did it without expecting them to get weaned off our largesse. That was our own fault. Now that we’re here in 2025 and telling them we’re no longer willing to pay for them to do what they want, all these countries are complaining that we’re being mean to them.
If the Europeans want to support Ukraine, let them. We have our own problems, thanks to the Dimocrats, and I hope it’s not too late to correct our own course. Their shucking of dependence on the dollar is gonna be tough but going cold turkey is necessary to get off substance abuse.
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EU countries are like ungrateful welfare recipients.
i thought the moron was going end this thing on his first day? Huh? What?
Trump did end it all, the day he got elected. The Ukrainian peon you support undid it in one seven minute tantrum.
Trump brought the situation closer to peace in a month than Biden did in 2 and half years. Arguably, the war started because Biden green-lit the invasion with his stupid “limited incursion” comments.
Considering Obama, Nuland and friends started the war…. who is/are the morons? Grifting off the deaths of thousands gets your support?
Oh tjv, you are so sweet. Please post some more bull shitt so I can fertilize my roses.
On the first day, God created light. You must really respect Trump if you expect him to operate on a level even close to that.
He has to have parties who want peace. Zelenskyy and European elites have become addicted to the graft.
Can you type and chew gum at the same time? I doubt it.
European leaders pledged late Friday to stand by Ukraine in the wake of the contentious Oval Office…
Let them cough up financial support then. Talk is cheap.
Not just financial, their own troops.
If the Euros really REALLY think it’s reasonable for a nation like (say) the USA which isn’t even IN Europe to send the majority of the money and in addition peacekeeping troops to Ukraine……
Well then how even much more reasonable is it for they themselves to pick up the slack, make up for the USA’s money cutoff, and station their own damn European peacekeeping troops as tripwires in Ukraine.
Europe needs to save Europe the third time out a WW beckons.
Uncle Moneybags Sam ain’t playing their game anymore.
Absolutely. They can stand by Ukraine and fight their forever war themselves.
We’re done.
The only way Ukraine can win is for the US to join the war and fight Russia.
That’s not going to happen. Trump’s not going to start WWIII.
What Trump wants to do is stop the war now, before Russia takes the rest of Ukraine.
A distracted Zelensky was seen incessantly rubbing his nose and scratching his ears throughout the meeting.
Man, he can’t last even an hour without his crack.
It slipped his mind that Hunter wasn’t going to be at the meeting. /s
Let’s not forget that Voldemort Zelensky had the opportunity three years ago to end this conflict when Russia approached him with a peace deal. Z rejected outright (probably because he wanted to milk the gravy train as long as he could), resulting in the decimation of his fellow countrymen.
Voldemort has no one to blame but himself for this prolonged conflict.
I don’t actually blame him too much for turning down the Russians at that point. Biden was telling him to ignore Russia and pouring money into the country.
He was willing, it was our State Department and IC, working through Biden, that dispatched Boris Johnson to scuttle the deal. Because, graft.
I’m outraged too. At the little Ukrainian grifter. And whatever democrats likely instigated this.
He was already on thin ice with Trump. Remember him flying into Pennsylvania last October and campaigning with Kamala? You think Trump has forgotten that? I think Zelinskyy is grateful for the money and hardware but didn’t express it well. I did hear him say it at the beginning of the press conference. His straying into whatever he was doing is a little strange, though. He must have known how Trump and Vance would react.
It’s already come out that before meeting with Trump that Zelensky was ‘advised’ by Susan Rice, Vindman, and Blinken.
1. Susan Rice provided the person of color input.
2. Vindman’s listening in, in case they need him to testify again.
3. And Blinken’s thinkin’ of way’s to stab Trump in the back.
If true, is it too late to court-martial that fat slob Vindman?
Which Vindman? The Ukraine Minister of Defense Vindman or the one the idiot voters installed in congress?
https://x.com/kyliejanekremer/status/1895646656919634071
This is not going to end well
Watching the whole video, I thought Trump was incredibly gracious from the outset and gave Zelensky a wide berth in accommodating his passive-aggressive swipes which were offered by Zelensky well in advance of Vance’s pushback. People in the room have reported that Zelensky was rolling his eyes at Trump almost from the moment they first sat down. It’s clear Vance could sense Trump’s growing unease and when Zelensky offered one too many gratuitous jabs, Vance pushed-back in a reasonably restrained way. There is ZERO doubt in my mind this shtick of Zelensky was choreographed before the meeting ever began and Obama’s foreign policy goods were certainly the choreographers.
My advice to Trump would be to very quietly and immediately begin curtailing Ukraine’s ability to resupply itself, particularly with weapons & critical ammunition….but, not so quietly so that no one notices. That way, Zelensky – and the other power-brokers in Ukraine – will understand without equivocation that the move isn’t bluster by Trump, but a carefully executed policy shift to cripple Ukraine. Let them find another leader to represent their interests or they can hope Sweden and Poland will defend them.
And the award for the most comic take goes to the English Independent, which clutched its proverbial pearls as it wrote ,”In scenes historic in their vulgarity, what resembled a verbal pub brawl broke out …” The sensitive reporters for The Indepedent apparently have never watched a session of Parliament, when English gentlemen take after each other in a manner reminiscent of public school bullying. No self-awareness at The Independent!
I guess they missed all those South Korean Parliament meetings that degenerated to guys on desks throwing down Kung Foo style.
I listened to the entire thing front to back. I think Zelinskyy suffered a little from a language barrier and his heart is in the right place as he is trying to save his country but that sure wasn’t the way to do it. If he didn’t know that you don’t stand up to Trump and Vance in public and try to one up them he sure does now. The cold hard truth is what Trump said. No matter how much money and equipment the European’s pour into Ukraine, the Ukrainian’s can’t beat Russia. That sucks but Putin isn’t going anywhere he doesn’t want to. The quicker Zelinskyy and the Euro’s come to grips with this the quicker the killing will stop. Ukraine is going to have to give up territory and that is that.
BS. He met with Rice and the others before coming to the WH. He wore disrespectful clothing, his body language was clear. First, the set up was France and GB coming to WH , they thought they could soften up Trump. What a joke
Don’t feel sorry for the comedian, he engaged in a war with Russia , took 350 billion US dollars, of which 100 billion are missing, he had 3 mansions in Europe and America, his wife spends a million a visit to Paris
We are done
New sheriff in town
Yes. People are already producing the receipts.
When Zelensky went to the WEF and met with Klaus Schwab, he wore a suit. He CHOSE to wear his stupid military cosplay outfit.
And the fact that he was ‘advised’ by Rice, Vindman, and Blinken before this meeting is actually insane. How stupid are you to take their advice?
And he’s responded in the 24 hours following it by… doubling down, doing interviews about how he did nothing wrong, and is currently tweeting out MORE nonsense about how a ‘ceasefire won’t work’.
He said exactly what he meant, he was just stupid enough to apparently take the advice of Blinken, Vindman, and Susan Rice, who it has now come out were ‘advising’ him before the meeting.
They were stupid enough to think that this nonsense is ‘popular’, and calling Trump out in front of the cameras would
Instead it’s done the exact opposite. It seems to have finally broken through the propaganda shield, and now everybody is suddenly realizing that outside the Washington DC bubble, the eternal money pit of Ukraine is NOT popular, and that people are sick of the ‘strategy’ of PUTIN EVIL, SEND MORE MONEY.
They just did a poll on it yesterday. 72% of Americans – including a BIG majority of 60% Democrats! – want Ukraine to negotiate a settlement. 60% support Trump negotiating directly with Putin to end it.
People are done with this nonsense.
“…he was just stupid enough to apparently take the advice of Blinken, Vindman, and Susan Rice, who it has now come out were ‘advising’ him before the meeting.”
That’s pretty stupid.
Zelensky handled it slightly better than Christopher Moltisanti handled the drug intervention on The Sopranos, but only slightly.
Nah – Zelensky is just a dick, and his true colors were on full display.
If the war ends, then he has to have elections. His grift is over. He is looking for another big payday.
European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, a former prime minister of Estonia, [said], “Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.
“We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the aggressor.”
Yes, please do that. Start taking care of yourselves. But I’ll believe it when I see it.
Yes. Please, GOD, step up your support yourselves.
Europe’s entire attitude is that they don’t believe their nonsense propaganda about Russia being a threat to Europe.
They can fund and fight their forever war themselves, that’s 100% acceptable to us.
Hahah.
I love satire.
Without US transport planes , they can’t even airlift their own troops into battle.
Perhaps a Eurorail pass for 50000?
Can you take your ammo on a Ryanair flight to Kyiv?
They are ridiculous posturing fools.
No wonder they idolize Zelensky.
Putin is a thug and Russia has expansionistic desires. What else is new.
Europe is a cesspool of elitist socialists and invading muslim barbarians. What’s new is Europe actually inviting them in through the front door instead of fighting them at the gates.
I’m sick of all 0f them and our own home grown betters who think nothing of lighting our treasure on fire so they can their own pockets. It is way past time to cut our losses where Europe is concerned. They can put their money and their population where their huge mouths are. We have our own rot at home to deal with.
“Nobody wants peace more than the Ukrainians do.”
This may be true, but if Z wants peace he should have checked his ego at the door.
There are Dems (and other DJT detractors) claiming the ambush was a set-up by Trump and Vance. But this makes no sense. The ambush would have depended on Z acting in a disrespectful manner. Who could have predicted that? A plan that relies on the execution of a low-probability act by someone else is not a good plan.
But let’s imagine that they’re right. DJT and JD engineered this blow-up. To what end? Think: 3D chess.
They’re driving Z to the only other party that matters – Russia. Imagine a peace settlement that requires Russian withdrawal from most, or even all, occupied territories for a 50% stake in Ukraine’s mineral wealth. Ukraine keeps all/most of its territory, Putin gets something for his troubles. Now there’s a deal.
Putin didn’t go into Ukraine looking for Ukraine’s mineral wealth, about which there is controversy as to what and how much actually exists.
He went in to keep ethnic Russians who didn’t want to be ruled by Kiev safe from being slaughtered by their own government, and to secure Russia’s position on the Black Sea.
He was pushing back on NATOs threats to move itself onto Russia’s borders, in exactly the way we would respond if Russia moved troops and weapons into Mexico as a “security guarantee” to the Mexican government
The West was/is saber-rattling and Ukranians suffered. The idea that your fantasy deal would persuade Russia to go back to status quo ante is … most unlikely.
Putin wanted all of Ukraine. That’s why there was a miles long traffic jam of tanks heading into Kiev that got destroyed. When he didn’t get all of Ukraine, he changed objectives.
Although that’s true, by now even Putin knows he’s not going to get what he wants. But he must get something for his troubles. If he’s not going to get Ukraine’s land, he could still get a stake in the entire nation’s mineral wealth. Such a deal could also keep Ukraine out of NATO.
What Zelensky really means by ‘peace’ is: ‘Ukraine gets to pretend they didn’t lose the war, keeps the territory that Russia has conquered, and gets into NATO with assurances they will defend him forever’.
That’s not peace. That’s delusion.
Zelensky wants to pretend that he won the war and everything will go back to the way it was.
Unfortunately, if everything went back to the way it was he would lose all the money he has squirreled way in off-shore accounts and go back to being a comedian.
Did I say anything about what Z wants? Z may have just made himself irrelevant. Saner people make take charge in Ukraine.
Welcome to bizzarro Maga word. Where Trump is the good guy and Latetia Jones, Alving Bragg, Jack SMiith and Liz Cheney are the bad guys.
Where Russia and Putin are the good guys and Zelensky and Ukraine are the bad guys!
( twirls finger around temple)
Possibly the truest statement you ever made.
Mom will bring your pizza pockets down to the basement shortly.
Is your keyboard broken? Because that comment is an absolute mess!
Typing with one hand down his pajama bottoms again.
Hamas and Hezbollah are bad guys, too, except in the more bizzare and sick TDS world that idolizes the bad guys above..
Jones, Bragg, Smith, and Cheney are the bad guys, There is no question of that.
Both Putin and Zelensky are bad guys. There is no good guy there.
I know it’s next to impossible for you but try and keep up.
What is it with liberals who equate “not giving everything Zelensky demands” with “being a Russian Stooge?” To me, THAT is bizarro logic. Remember, you are the one who climbed into the bubble, and only you are the one who can get you back out of it. Meanwhile, the rest of us are enjoying a nice sunny day in the real world.
Like it or not, MAGA is ruling the roost, Dems are toast and struggling with all that means,
Then ‘European leaders’ can fund this forever war themselves.
RUSSIA BAD, PUTIN EVIL, SEND MORE MONEY is not a winning strategy.
Europe has literally paid Russia more money for oil and gas than it has sent to Ukraine!
They DO NOT BELIEVE that Russia is actually a threat to them, or they’d actually stop buying their oil and gas and start sending troops.
We’re done with the nonsense.
Ukraine never had a chance in this war, with uneven populations and industrial might – similar perhaps to the US Civil War where the South only lasted as long as it did because of much better generals, until Lincoln appointed Grant. IMO only outside military aid has kept Ukraine going and only a fool like Biden would not have been pressuring Ukraine to pick the best time to get a settlement. Zelensky badly and stupidly “misread the room” in the meeting with Trump.
Too many Europeans have lost all touch under the protection of the USA, who they dislike, envy and resent, even as they pretend otherwise. So much like the current Democrats.
Throw Canadians into that mix as well,
If you want peace, prepare for war.
Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
Biden/Obama/Europe didn’t do the first. Ukraine did the second.
Props on getting “toed the line” right.
In the last year Ukraine has voted against or abstained against the US in the UN General Assembly 31% of the time , improving to 24% since Trump got in.
After 100+ billion US taxpayer dollars?
Yeah , the number should be zero.
Cut the grifters and their short man who think’s he’s Che Guevara off.
Now.
Zelensky had two previous opportunities to sign the minerals agreement BEFORE the WH visit occurred — ostensibly to sign the minerals agreement to which Ukraine had agreed in principle. Then Zelensky goes rogue. And afterwards the Euros rally ’round Z claiming Trump set Z up. Clearly not the case. But isn’t it interesting that 1) Susan Rice appears to have known all of the details of the minerals agreement beforehand, and 2) Rice’s post-meeting comments track the Euros’ almost word-for-word. There are ZERO coincidences in the game of globalism….
You make an excellent point about Rice. What she’s done is a violation of federal law, the Logan Act, the same predicate crime that Team Obama used to destroy Gen Flynn and Trump’s 1st term. While reasonable people can debate the constitutionality of the Logan Act (I see it as largely unconstitutional), it still exists.
If Pam Bondi was the same ruthless son-of-a-gun that Merck Garland was, Rice’s homes would have all been raided last night while search warrants were served pursuant to a Logan Act violation. Let everyone in DC think their coms are being monitored because they’re on the business end of a FISA warrant. It’s about time the Democrats are held to the same standard, with the same dirty tricks, they held Trump to in his first term.
Hey Zelensky, you’re pair of pcoekt 2’s ain’t gonna get you far here. Yes, we all hate Putin, and we all think Putin is a serious threat, but in no way shape or form does that entitle YOU to everything that you want.
That meeting was very similar to a drug/alcohol intervention, where the patient decides that THEY are going to dictate the terms of their recovery. I have yet to see one of those turn out well. By the time we get to the “tough love” stage, that person is in a hole that they are never going to get out of by themselves, and I don’t think that Zelensky has realized that, yet. As Dr Phil would put it, “let me know how that works out for you.”