Former Obama Nationwide Safety Advisor Susan Rice appeared on MSNBC following Ukrainian President Zelensky’s disastrous and insulting behavior throughout a gathering with President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance on Friday.
Rice made her allegiances clear as she parroted Zelensky’s personal negotiation verbiage whereas overtly objecting to a deal that will be higher for America.
Susan Rice’s interview on MSNBC is telling for two principal causes, each revealed in first minutes in identical sentence: “Zelensky was compelled to comply with a horrible deal that will have despatched Ukraine’s minerals to the USA” with none concrete safety ensures.” 1/
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) March 1, 2025
Rice began out chummy, speaking about “Vladimir” earlier than correcting herself and calling him by his formal identify.
Rice instructed MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace, “Vladimir, I imply, excuse me, Vladimir Zelensky was compelled to comply with a horrible deal that will have set Ukraine’s minerals to the USA with none concrete safety ensures.”
“And but, as a result of he was attempting to enhance a relationship with Donald Trump, he got here to Washington, he got here to the Oval Workplace, and sat down for a gathering, hat in hand. And shortly after he acquired there, the Vice President of the USA lit into him and began a confrontation.”
“Now, I’ve been in numerous Oval Workplace conferences with heads of state, presidents and vice presidents, as Nationwide Safety Advisor, as UN ambassador, and in different roles. I can inform you that the vice President or the Secretary of State or anyone else, they don’t leap in, hijack a dialog with out the categorical blessing of the President of the USA.”
“So JD Vance did that intentionally. Donald Trump knew what he was going to do. And I believe, as he mentioned on the finish, as a result of he can’t assist himself, this was a setup for the cameras. It was a play to his base, however above all, it was a play to Vladimir Putin, to indicate fealty to Vladimir Putin, and to attempt to humiliate Zelensky.”
Zelensky managed to humilate himself all by himself.
Rice then swooned over Zelensky like a love struck college lady, “However Zelenski didn’t play together with the script as a result of Zelenski’s acquired dignity and guts, and Zelensky has those who he democratically represents. Because of this, he couldn’t sit there in silence as lies had been being instructed about how the battle was began, whose accountability it was, et cetera, et cetera.”
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2/2 So former U.S. Nationwide Safety Advisor Susan Rice is objecting to a GREAT deal for America. WOW. And second, her language re “with none concrete safety ensures” certain appears just like what Zelensky was attempting to renegotiate. Right here’s clip: https://t.co/jJitAwj6Lc
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) March 1, 2025
Is she, and presumably others from Obama’s interior circle, advising international leaders to spite President Trump?
Ought to Susan Rice have coached Zelensky in opposition to the pursuits of the US, that’s Treason with capital T, my pals.
— Ibrahim Reyes (@Ibrahim_Reyes_) March 1, 2025