JD Vance steps into spotlight defending Trump’s foreign policy in Oval Office dustup with Zelenskyy

Vice President JD Vance defended the president Donald Trump and the foreign policy plan of his administration on Friday during tense exchanges with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy – inserting at the center of attention that Vice -Presidents rarely see.

On Friday, Trump and Vance paired at Zelensky’s oval office in the midst of a negotiations on the end of the war in Ukraine – the exchange that eventually encouraged Trump to announce the negotiations of rest and ask the Ukrainian leader to leave the White House.

The source familiar with the meeting was told by Fox News Digital that he did not expect a meeting that led to a combat exchange, and that Trump and Vance were both caught in Zelenskyy’s behavior.

While the vice -presidents traditionally remain in the wings, while the president occupies the center stage, on Friday the meeting with Zelenskyy exposed the weight that Vance Vance carries overhead and promoting the first agenda of Trump’s administration – and in the country and in abroad.

Edward-Isaac Dovera, a senior CNN journalist, said that the moment may have been one of the most significant for Vice-Presidents, just behind the efforts of Vice President Dick Cheney who support the United States to attack Iraq.

“It is possible that JD Vance today had the most significant 90 seconds of its Vice -President and the greatest influence that each VP except Cheney had to switch to US foreign policy in the way he changed his interview in the oval office today,” Dovere said on Friday on X.

Meeting an oval office with Zelenskyy also comes in the fifth of Vance’s appearance on February 14th at the Munich Security Conference – an event that made a lasting impression on European nations and their relations with the USA

In particular, Vance said that Russia and China do not represent a great threat to European countries as a “threat from the inside,” compared to issues such as censorship and illegal immigration.

“Many of us, on the other side of us, are increasingly similar to the old rooted interests hiding behind ugly Soviet words such as misinformation and misinformation, which simply does not like the idea of ​​someone with an alternative point of view can express a different opinion or, vote of God, or worse, said the choice.

Notes have encouraged the return of European leaders, including German defense minister Boris Pistorius, who said he interpreted objections as a comparison with “conditions in parts of Europe with those in authoritarian regimes.”

The tensions escalated at the oval office on Friday after Zelenskyy withdrew Vance’s statements that the road was through diplomacy, claiming that Russian President Vladimir Putin had interrupted other agreements in the past.

Where Zelenskyy moves after a tense exchanging white house with Trump, Vance

“What kind of diplomacy, jd, you’re talking?” Said Zelenskyy. “What do you mean?”

In response, Vance said, “I’m talking about a type of diplomacy that will end the destruction of your country.”

“Mr. President, respectful, I think it’s unfair to get into an oval office to try to mate it in front of the US media,” Vance told Zelenskyy. “Right now, you are going around and forcing recruits on the front lines because you have problems with your workforce. You should thank the president for bringing him to enter this country.”

Zelenskyy then asked Vance if he had ever visited Ukraine, encouraging Vance to examine if Zelenskyy had not agreed that Ukraine had the challenges of recruiting new troops.

“And do you think it is respected to come to the oval office of the United States and attack the administration that tries to prevent the destruction of your country?” Said Vance.

Zelenskyy replied that everyone faced challenges during the war and that, although Ocean had protected the US from Russia, he warned that he would eventually feel a threat.

“Don’t tell us what we will feel,” Trump said. “We are trying to solve the problem. Don’t tell us what we will feel.

“You’re not able to dictate it, remember that.”

Vance and Zelenskyy also paired when he asked Vance if Zelenskyy ever said “thank you once this whole meeting”, citing Zelenskyy to claim that Vance said “loud”.

Trump then broke Zelenskyy and warned him that Ukraine was in a “big trouble”.

“Wait a minute,” Trump said. “No, no, you talked a lot. Your country is in big trouble.”

Trump says Zelenskyy can ‘come back when ready for peace’ after exchanging a fire white house

Zelenskyy visited Washington due to negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, and it was expected to sign a mineral agreement that will now allow access to the Ukraine minerals in exchange for support for the US -in the Entry of Russian Russian 2022.

But after a tense exchange in the oval office, Trump announced the negotiations of rest and said that Zelenskyy could return to the White House when he was “ready for peace”. In addition, Zelenskyy left the White House without signing a mineral agreement.

“I found that President Zelenskyy is not ready for peace if America is involved, because he believes our involvement gives a great advantage in negotiations,” Trump wrote in Friday in the social place of truth. “I don’t want an advantage, I want peace. The United States was directly in her oval office. He can come back when he is ready for peace.”

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Zelenskyy also followed the post on the social media on X, expressing gratitude to the US for their support.

“Thank you American, thank you for your support, thanks for this visit,” Zelenskyy said. “Thanks @potus, Congress and the American people. Ukraine needs just and lasting peace, and we are doing exactly on it.”

The exchange was encouraged by the mixed reactions of those on the Capitol hill. Republican Senator Lindsay Graham of South Caroline said Zelenskyy should resign, while the leader of the minority of Democrats Chuck Schumer from New York said that “Trump and Vance Rade Putin’s Dirty Job.”

Associated Press and Fox News’ Emma Colton contributed to this report.