President Volodymyr Zelensky can still come back to the table to make a deal with Donald Trump.
Vice President J.D. Vance said that the ‘door is open’ – even after the disastrous public Oval Office meeting last week where Zelensky, Trump and Vance got into a heated back-and-forth over continued U.S. support.
Vance’s interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity that aired on Monday evening was pre-filmed.
And just before it went live on the right-leaning network, news broke that the Trump administration is pausing aid to Ukraine.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the U.S. has sent $65.9 billion in military assistance – all approved under former President Joe Biden and mostly under the Democrat-controlled Congress.
Vance warned Ukrainians that Trump might be the only chance for the war torn country against aggressor Russia.
Vice President J.D. Vance claimed in an interview that aired on Monday that President Donald Trump is the only hope for Ukraine in its war with Russia
‘My message to Ukrainians, by the way, to President Zelensky, is – when you’ve lost [Senator] Lindsey Graham, that means you need to come to the negotiating table and recognize Donald Trump is the only game in town,’ the vice president told Fox News host Sean Hannity in the Monday interview.
‘He’s the only person who I think has a meaningful plan to save that country,’ the VP noted.
Sen. Graham (R-S.C.) is notably a very pro-Ukraine Republican senator who has advocated for aiding the Eastern European nation in its defense against Moscow.
Most Americans – or at least Republican politicians who are in charge in Washington, D.C. – are losing their sympathy for the continued war and no longer want their taxpayer dollars going towards the conflict.
But Vance warns that Trump is the only hope and revealed that behind-the-scenes European leaders are not so earnest in their support for Ukraine’s war conflict.
‘Here’s the problem with the Europeans – and a lot of these guys are our friends, they’re our allies… the president has a great relationship with a lot of European heads of state, and so do I, but they need to be realistic,’ Vance insists.
‘Sometimes you’ll have European heads of state who may pop up their chest and say, ‘we’re in it with President Zelensky for the next 10 years.’ And then in private, they’ll pick up the phone and say, ‘This can’t go on forever. He has to come to [the] negotiating table.’
A meeting between President Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and VP Vance devolved into absolute chaos as they publicly argued over the U.S. stance in the war
He went on: ‘So I honestly don’t care what the Europeans say in public. What I care is what they say in private. And what they need to be saying to President Zelensky is ‘this can’t go on forever.’ The bloodshed, the killing, the economic devastation. It’s making everyone worse off.’
‘The only pathway to… peace and prosperity is what the President is trying to accomplish,’ Vance concluded.
While the two world leaders left their meeting at the White House last week on shaky ground, Vance says that Zelensky is still welcome to come back and make a deal.
As long as Zelensky is serious, Vance says, he is welcome to come back to the Oval Office.
