Election Meddling? Zelensky Stumps For Harris On Taxpayer Dime

Update(1619ET): During his first day in a busy week traveling in the US, Ukraine’s President Zelensky was in Pennsylvania on Sunday. He was flown there on a US Air Force C-17. This unusual arrangement is of course courtesy of American taxpayers, and it looks like the Pentagon and Secret Service are sparing no expense.

Policy consultant Dan Caldwell has pointed out at a moment that Zelensky has attacked Trump’s running mate Sen. JD Vance in the pages of The New Yorker that “The Biden-Harris admin is using military assets to fly a foreign leader into a battleground state in order to undermine their political opponents.”

This is a scandal which the mainstream media is dutifully ignoring. Joe Lonsdale, Palantir co-founder and 8VC founding partner, has commented that this is a big, big deal. “Team Kamala is so concerned about Pennsylvania, they’re using military assets to fly in Zelensky to campaign!” Lonsdale wrote on X.

The blatant conflict of interest is out in the open. “They’re implying their war creates jobs, and are forcing Z to attack Trump & Vance,” Lonsdaile continues. “Literally funding a foreign leader and using the military to bring him to campaign with them in a battleground state.” 

Worth noting that Zelenskyy was flown to Pennsylvania on an U.S. Air Force C-17.

The Biden-Harris admin is using military assets to fly a foreign leader into a battleground state in order to undermine their political opponents. https://t.co/OSebVUuBEg pic.twitter.com/biMGTfAc1J

— Dan Caldwell 🇺🇸 (@dandcaldwell) September 23, 2024

He concludes, “PA voters aren’t dumb, this will backfire hard on the leftist Borg.”

The following scene also took place in Pennsylvania during the tour of the ammunition manufacturing plant:

There’s Gov Josh Shapiro with Zelensky signing artillery shells at a weapons plant in Scranton, PA

For those unfamiliar, Shapiro is the guy who said Palestinians are too “battle-minded” to make peace pic.twitter.com/QjyTTVVV0v

— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) September 23, 2024

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Just ahead of his trip to the United States where he’s expected to meet with President Biden later this week, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky gave an interview to The New Yorker wherein he mounted a risky and unexpected direct attack on Trump’s pick for Vice President, Ohio Senator JD Vance.

Zelensky told The New Yorker in response to Trump’s promises to negotiate an end to the Ukraine war that “Trump doesn’t really know how to stop the war even if he might think he knows how.”

“With this war, oftentimes, the deeper you look at it the less you understand,” Zelensky contined.

The Ukrainian leader was then asked about Trump’s VP pick, to which the reply was “He is too radical.” Here is how that section of the interview began…

New Yorker: Vance has come out with a more precise plan to—

Zelensky: To give up our territories.

New Yorker: Your words, not mine. But, yes, that’s the gist of it.

Zelensky: His message seems to be that Ukraine must make a sacrifice. 

And Zelensky continued: “This brings us back to the question of the cost and who shoulders it. The idea that the world should end this war at Ukraine’s expense is unacceptable.”

“This would be an awful idea, if a person were actually going to carry it out, to make Ukraine shoulder the costs of stopping the war by giving up its territories,” Zelensky said. 

He asserted that this wouldn’t bring an end to the fighting regardless and that Trump and Vance’s vows to end the war is “just sloganeering”.

Zelensky then suggested that it is “dangerous” for men which such talking points to rise to power and that they could spark global war through irresponsible policies. He was then quoted in The New Yorker as follows:

[Vance and others who share his views] should clearly understand that the moment they start trading on our territory is the moment they start pawning America’s interests elsewhere: the Middle East, for example, as well as Taiwan and the U.S. relations with China. Whichever President or Vice-President raises this prospect—that ending the war hinges on cementing the status quo, with Ukraine simply giving up its land—should be held responsible for potentially starting a global war. Because such a person would be implying that this kind of behavior is acceptable.

I don’t take Vance’s words seriously, because, if this were a plan, then America is headed for global conflict. It will involve Israel, Lebanon, Iran, Taiwan, China, as well as many African countries. 

He then in a patronizing way told “Mr. Vance” to “read up on the history of the Second World War” while suggesting that his plan with Russia is tantamount to ‘appeasing’ Hitler.

JD Vance on the people of Ukraine:

“I’m sick of being told that we have to care more about people 6,000 miles away than we do people like my mom…” (2023) @Acyn.pic.twitter.com/RTep657awP

— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) July 15, 2024

We expect that the Trump team isn’t going to take too kindly to Zelensky’s attack on both Trump and Vance.

The rhetoric from the interview specifically in regards to Vance was much more direct than usual.

Typically Zelensky has appeared more cautious with his criticisms, not wishing to offend a potential future Republican administration; however, that caution seems to have gone out the window.