Grenell rips Susan Rice for years of failed Dem international polices that led to struggle

Ric Grenell, the Trump administration’s particular presidential envoy for particular missions, slammed Obama and Biden-era diplomat Susan Rice for the Democratic Occasion’s years of international insurance policies that he mentioned landed the U.S. in two completely different wars underneath the Biden administration alone.  

“Your man couldn’t even discuss to Putin. For 3.5 years! Your insurance policies helped usher in a struggle in Ukraine, Gaza…and Rwanda when you bear in mind,” Grenell posted to X on Saturday afternoon. 

“And you then lied about Libya – it wasn’t attributable to a video,” he continued, referring to claims in 2012 that an anti-Islam video led to the Benghazi terror assault on U.S. authorities amenities within the Libyan metropolis. “You made that up…. Donald Trump handed you peace within the Center East and Europe – you handed us two wars. We see you,” he added. 

Grenell was responding to a publish from Susan Rice, who served as an Obama administration nationwide safety advisor and U.N. ambassador, that claimed conservatives “are as much as the identical outdated drained crap” following President Donald Trump’s tense assembly with Ukraine President Volodomyr Zelenskyy on Friday. 

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The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway had posted to X speculating that Rice and different Democrats could have “personally” suggested Zelenskyy on appearing “hostile and to attempt to goad Trump into blowing up” through the assembly, sparking Rice to weigh in. 

“You clowns are as much as the identical outdated drained crap,” Rice posted to X. “When your man screws up and royally embarrasses himself and the U.S., you attempt to change the topic and lie a couple of favourite goal to distract and deflect. For the report, I’ve by no means met Zelenskyy and by no means spoken to him. Ever. Or suggested him or anyone round him. It’s a disgrace that you just contend that it’s within the U.S. nationwide curiosity to promote out Ukraine and suck as much as Putin.”

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Hemingway shot again, “Thanks in your response. The place would we place this denial, in comparison with your oft-repeated lie that the Benghazi debacle was on account of a YouTube video, and your lie that you just ‘knew nothing’ in regards to the unmasking of Trump officers earlier than being compelled to confess you probably did it extensively?”

Susan Rice (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Pictures)

Final week, Rice joined MSNBC and declared “there is not any query” that the Trump-Vance assembly with Zelenskyy “was a setup.”

“It is a very unhappy day and a humiliation for the US on the world stage. However let’s step again and analyze what’s occurred right here. I believe there is not any query that this was a setup,” she mentioned on MSNBC. 

“Quickly after [Zelenskyy] bought there, the vice chairman of the US lit into him and began a confrontation. Now, I have been in numerous Oval Workplace conferences with heads of state, presidents and vice presidents, as nationwide safety advisor, as U.N. ambassador, and in different roles. I can inform you that the vice chairman or the secretary of state or anyone else, they do not soar in, hijack a dialog with out the categorical blessing of the president of the US. So JD Vance did that intentionally. Donald Trump knew what he was going to do,” she continued. 

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Forward of his assembly with Trump, Zelenskyy additionally met with a gaggle of bipartisan Senate lawmakers, together with Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Chris Coons, D-Del., and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn. Zelenskyy reportedly informed the group that he wouldn’t “assist a faux peace settlement” throughout that assembly.  

“Simply completed a gathering with President Zelensky (sic) right here in Washington. He confirmed that the Ukrainian individuals is not going to assist a faux peace settlement the place Putin will get every thing he needs and there aren’t any safety preparations for Ukraine,” Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., posted to X on Friday morning. 

Ric Grenell (Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures)

Zelenskyy joined Trump and his staff within the Oval Workplace shortly after the Senate assembly, the place political fireworks have been on full show following Zelenskyy taking situation with Vice President JD Vance arguing the trail to securing peace between Russia and Ukraine was by the U.S. partaking in diplomacy.

Ric Grenell and Susan Rice (Getty Pictures)

“You are playing with the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals,” Trump mentioned at one level through the assembly. “You are playing with World Conflict III. You are playing with World Conflict III. And what you are doing could be very disrespectful to the nation, this nation.”

Vance additionally interjected, asking Zelenskyy whether or not he had “mentioned thanks as soon as this whole assembly.” 

Congress has appropriated $175 billion since 2022 for help to Ukraine, in response to the Council on International Relations, although precise financial figures on how a lot the U.S. has supplied to Ukraine range based mostly on what is taken into account help. 

Whole European help to Ukraine between January 2022 and December 2024 totals $138.7 billion, in response to German assume tank the Kiel Institute. The U.S. contributed $119.7 billion throughout that very same timeframe, Fox Digital beforehand reported.

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President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meet within the Oval Workplace on February 28, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Pictures)

“Your persons are very courageous,” Trump continued within the assembly. “However you are both going to make a deal or we’re out. And if we’re out, you will battle it out. I do not assume it will be fairly, however you will battle it out. However you do not have the playing cards. However as soon as we signal that deal, you are in a a lot better place. However you are not appearing in any respect grateful. And that is not a pleasant factor. I will be trustworthy. That is not a pleasant factor.”

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy leaves the White Home on February 28, 2025. (Getty Pictures)

Zelenskyy traveled to the U.Ok. over the weekend, assembly with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who informed native media that he had spoken with Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron relating to the U.Ok. and France taking the reins on crafting a plan for peace that can ultimately be offered to the U.S. 

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European leaders are assembly in London on Sunday to proceed peace talks.