March 03, 2025
Dear Patriot,
We apologize that a link to a recent interview with Secretary Rubio in this morning’s newsletter was broken.
Hopefully, the link below will take you to the interview on CNN with Secretary Rubio, but links have a way of disappearing.
We prefer using links to X/Twitter so we are not increasing clicks and traffic to the failed news gathering operations.
Interestingly, the full interview is not quickly found on the CNN website, just a two minute clip.
The full interview is 19 minutes.
Link to X for the full interview with Secretary Rubio.
This is why we think it is important to see the whole interview and the entire meeting with Zelensky.
The Fake/Drive By/Failed News lies constantly. They edit footage and also do not report salient information. Such as, the Democrats met with Zelensky BEFORE the Oval Office meeting with the President.
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David Catron at American Spectator
The Mendacious Media Coverage of Zelensky’s Stunt:
They have used deceptively edited videos to support dishonest reports about what actually happened.
QUOTE: 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 corporate media have also misrepresented Great Britain’s stance on the Ukraine issue.
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.
The corporate media have, of course, lied about all of this. The New York Times told its readers, “The president’s verbal assault on Mr. Zelensky was a stunning display of anger and resentment toward the leader of a country that has been invaded by a larger power intent on eliminating it as an independent state.” Politico parroted this nonsense, “Ukraine’s supporters in Washington and abroad reacted with horror to President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance’s verbal takedown of Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, calling it a dismaying display of American bullying.” The Atlantic servilely repeated this narrative:
Leave aside, if only for a moment, the utter boorishness with which President Donald Trump and Vice President J. D. Vance treated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House today. Also leave aside the spectacle of American leaders publicly pummeling a friend as if he were an enemy. All of the ghastliness inflicted on Zelensky today should not obscure the geopolitical reality of what just happened: The president of the United States ambushed a loyal ally.
Curiously, none of these accounts include any mention of Zelensky’s meeting with a group of Democrats that occurred about an hour before his arrival at the White House.
This is how Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) described this confab in a Friday morning X post: “Just finished a meeting with President Zelensky here in Washington. He confirmed that the Ukrainian people will not support a fake peace agreement where Putin gets everything he wants and there are no security arrangements for Ukraine.” In other words, this “loyal ally” never had any intention of accepting the mineral resources agreement he was invited to the White House to sign.
Nonetheless, the corporate media have insisted on misrepresenting what happened Friday in the Oval office. CNN portrayed the event in the same lurid tones used by the publications noted above: “Never before has an American president verbally attacked his visitor like Trump did Zelensky, leading to an almost real-time breakdown in relations between Washington and Kyiv. Trump at one point threatened to give up on Ukraine entirely.” The corporate media have also misrepresented Great Britain’s stance on the Ukraine issue. Britain’s U.S. ambassador, Peter Mandelson, joined ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday to send this message to Zelensky:
I think the first thing that President Zelensky can do is to make clear his commitment to the initiative that President Trump is taking. And, yes, I do think it would be a good idea if he signed the economic and commercial deal put forward by the United States … It will mean that U.S. commercial interest, U.S. individual citizens will be on the ground there and that will be an even greater, added incentive for the U.S. to protect Ukraine in future, make sure that war does not ensue again.
Mandelson went on to tell the host, former Clinton operative George Stephanopoulos, “George, it is the only show in town.” Meanwhile, Zelensky has been hobnobbing with the bourgeoisie in London, where British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has reportedly “laid out a framework for a plan to end Russia’s war in Ukraine — one where Europe will lead the charge for securing peace — while still relying heavily on U.S. backing.” Zelensky also told the BBC that he’s still ready to sign the U.S. minerals deal. It is now abundantly clear that the feckless President of Ukraine is by no means the only comedian performing on the world stage.
All of which brings us back to Friday’s Oval Office press conference and the dust-up that was obviously caused by Volodymyr Zelensky. This is perhaps a good time to review this guy’s history.
As Victor Davis Hanson reminds us, “Zelensky has postponed elections, outlawed opposition media and parties, suspended habeas corpus and walked out of negotiations when he had an even hand in Spring 2022.” 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.
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