Posted on 03/10/2025 11:28:15 AM PDT by bimboeruption
President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance have refashioned the United States into “Vladimir Putin’s useful idiots,” the VP’s cousin alleged in the wake of the Trump administration’s recent abandonment of military and intelligence support for Ukraine.
Nate Vance, a Texan who said he volunteered for three years fighting on the front lines against Russia’s Putin-ordered invasion of its neighbor, told Le Figaro in an interview published Sunday that he is “disappointed” in his “good” and “intelligent” cousin over the administration’s sudden and abrasive turn away from supporting America’s war-torn ally.
JD Vance was widely seen as the instigator of a blowup with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office earlier this month during which he and Trump berated their counterpart for allegedly not thanking them enough for U.S. military support.
In the days following the shocking exchange, Trump suspended military aid and intelligence sharing to Kyiv. The vice president’s cousin blasted the decision.
“When [JD Vance] criticized aid to Ukraine, I thought it was because he needed to appeal to his electorate, that it was part of the political game,” Nate Vance told Le Figaro. “But what they did to Zelensky was an ambush of absolute dishonesty.” A former U.S. Marine, he said he volunteered for Ukraine’s Da Vinci Wolves First Motorized Battalion from 2022 to January of this year.
He and his politician cousin share grandparents, and he said the two of them have vacationed together. Nate Vance added that he has tried to contact JD, but hasn’t received a response.
“Being your family doesn’t mean I’m going to accept you killing my comrades,” he added to Le Figaro.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration has opened lines of communication to Putin—whose decision to invade Ukraine three years ago violated international law, according to experts and the UN.
Trump has also made overtures to the ruthless autocrat, stating on Friday that the U.S. is “doing very well with Russia” and that he is finding it “more difficult to deal with Ukraine.”
Trump recently spread several blatant falsehoods about Zelensky, accusing of him being a “dictator” and offering up fake approval ratings to wrongly suggest support for the Ukrainian leader was dismal at home.
The Kremlin delighted in his remarks and touted them in state media.
“Donald Trump and my cousin clearly think they can placate Vladimir Putin,” Nate Vance told Le Figaro. “They are wrong. The Russians are not about to forget our support for Ukraine. We are Vladimir Putin’s useful idiots.”
The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
Go Trump!
Go JD!
“said he volunteered for three years fighting on the front lines against Russia”
Looks like we found the useful idiot.
I take it the cousin is from the side of the family tree with no branches.
Yep, there is always a grifting, jealous family member eager to latch onto the success of a cousin or sibling.
Should be ridiculed and dismissed as a petty, envious little boy.
Why do we care about anything that shows up in the toxic landfill that is The Daily Beast?
It’s bad enough to have a moron for a cousin but it’s worse to have a moron cousin who is willing to trash you in public.
Nobody was ‘ambushed’.
The contemptible little punk brought it on himself; he walked into the Oval all ready to cause trouble.
(Yep, there is always a grifting, jealous family member eager to latch onto the success of a cousin or sibling.)
Reminds me of Trump’s backstabbing greedy niece, Mary Trump.
The cousin was elected to what office?
Look on the bright side - Ukraine is no longer using trannies as PR reps for American media.
>>>>Looks like we found the useful idiot.<<<<<
I’d say he was a zeeper but Vance’s cretin cousin put his money where is mouth is and actually fought for Zelensky.
Big whoop. Most of Tampon Tim’s relatives in Nebraska didn’t support his VP run.
FWIW, Vance has been an attorney and been around high powered intense negotiations. I am certain, based on my experience in lesser meetings, he and Trump discussed in advance that Vance was allowed to speak in certain predetermined circumstances. These things are not spontaneous.
Also, note Marco Rubio and others remained silent.
Did he...?
We’re supposed to take his word for that?
>>>>Nobody was ‘ambushed’.
The contemptible little punk brought it on himself; he walked into the Oval all ready to cause trouble.<<<<
Yep. After the democrats blew smoke up his greasy arse he thought he was a tough guy.
Little did Zelensky know, President Trump ain’t The Big Guy looking for his 10%.
Any American who claims to have fought in Ukraine might as well claim they like little boys.
I will note again that it was Zelensky who was brought to the White House as an honored guest, not Putin. So if they were trying to elevate Putin and diminish Zelensky, they have a funny way of doing that.
The reason that meeting went the way it did was because of Zelensky. Look up the Rubio interview from the week *prior* to that (we can tell from that that the comments made after the WH meeting were not post meeting spin) - there were further communications and that was again supposedly worked out. That meeting was supposed to be the signing of the deal, making nice-nice for the cameras, and then providing the way forward out of the conflict entirely with a new economic partnership beneficial to the economies of both countries. Zelensky is who caught Trump, Vance, and Rubio by surprise - not the other way around.
He claims to have survived 3 years of front line service in the Ukrainian army?
I wouldn’t trust some of my cousins to babysit my gold fish bowl for a three day holiday weekend.
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