Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) advised Secretary of State Marco Rubio to “grow a pair” after the previous senator defended President Trump after his heated assembly with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington.
After Friday’s public spat between Zelensky, Trump and Vice President Vance, Rubio thanked the commander-in-chief for “standing up for America in a way that no President has ever had the courage to do before. Thank you for putting America First. America is with you!”
Swalwell, a frequent Trump critic, known as out Rubio over his response to the huddle that rapidly went off the rails.
“Bro, did you write this? We all saw you,” Swalwell wrote in a Friday submit on the social platform X. “You tried to shrink in your chair. You looked at Trump like he was some crazy ass pops who was embarrassing you on your first date. Don’t bulls— us. Grow a pair.”
The secretary of state sat comparatively expressionless subsequent to Vance through the Friday Oval Workplace because the assembly spiraled in a contentious back-and-forth.
Vance was essential of Zelensky, who expressed skepticism towards the assertion {that a} peace deal will be reached with Russia and its President Vladimir Putin.
The vice chairman stated Ukraine’s chief was “disrespectful” for coming to the White Home “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 his conflict,” Vance advised Zelensky.
Vance, a former Ohio senator, accused Zelensky of being ungrateful for the navy help the U.S. has given to Kyiv since Russia’s invasion of the nation simply over three years in the past.
The commander-in-chief stated after the assembly that Zelensky shouldn’t be able to make an settlement that might finish the battle, that he “disrespected” the U.S. and will return to the White Home when he’s “ready” for peace.
Zelensky thanked Trump after and added that Kyiv “needs just and lasting peace, and we are working exactly for that.”
