Rubio hits fake news story

 DC Daily Journal:

Secretary of State Marco Rubio absolutely demolished host Margaret Brennan’s baseless claims that European leaders are rushing to the White House to shield Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy from being “bullied” by President Donald Trump. This kind of nonsense is straight out of the fake news playbook, designed to undermine Trump’s bold efforts to broker real peace in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Brennan tried to push the narrative that Europeans are showing up en masse out of “concern” that Zelenskyy might get strong-armed into a raw deal. But Rubio wasn’t having any of it, pointing out that America has been lockstep with its allies in hammering out a sensible path to end the war.
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Rubio called out the “bullying” smear as nothing more than a “stupid media narrative,” making it clear that it was the Trump administration that extended the invitations to these leaders. This isn’t about babysitting Zelenskyy—it’s about collaborative diplomacy under strong American leadership. The administration has held a “dozen meetings” with Zelenskyy and has worked closely with European allies, whom Trump has talked to “as early as Thursday,” Rubio said.

“This is such a stupid media narrative that [European leaders are] coming here tomorrow because Trump is going to bully Zelenskyy into a bad deal. We’ve been working with these people for weeks, for weeks on this stuff,” Rubio continued. “They’re coming here tomorrow because they chose to come here tomorrow. We invited them to come. We invited them to come. The president invited them to come.”
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Some in the media are apparently still suffering from Trump derangement syndrome.  Rubio set the record straight.

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