{"id":3254,"date":"2025-04-27T09:24:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T09:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=3254"},"modified":"2025-04-27T09:24:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T09:24:15","slug":"jd-vances-cousin-blasts-him-for-being-putins-useful-idiot-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=3254","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance\u2019s cousin blasts him for being Putin\u2019s \u201cuseful idiot\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"90\" data-end=\"155\"><strong data-start=\"90\" data-end=\"155\">Nate Vance Criticizes Trump and JD Vance Over Ukraine Meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"157\" data-end=\"503\">Nate Vance, cousin of U.S. Vice President JD Vance and a former volunteer with the Ukrainian military, publicly criticized JD Vance and President Trump for their conduct toward Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a tense Oval Office meeting in February 2025. In a BBC interview, he said the meeting lacked \u201cdecorum\u201d and professionalism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"505\" data-end=\"810\">Nate has previously accused both leaders of serving as \u201cuseful idiots\u201d for Vladimir Putin due to their stance on Ukraine. The live-streamed meeting saw Trump threaten to cut U.S. support unless a deal was made, even invoking the threat of \u201cWorld War Three,\u201d while JD Vance accused Zelensky of ingratitude.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"812\" data-end=\"1177\">Disagreeing, Nate said Zelensky regularly thanks supporters in his addresses and called expectations of deference unfair, especially from leaders critical of him. He also defended Zelensky\u2019s military-style clothing, dismissing criticism as petty and hypocritical\u2014pointing out that figures like Elon Musk have worn casual clothes at the White House without backlash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1179\" data-end=\"1436\">In an interview with <em data-start=\"1200\" data-end=\"1211\">Le Figaro<\/em>, Nate described the meeting as an \u201cambush of absolute bad faith.\u201d Though a lifelong Republican, he said, \u201cWe\u2019re handling this the wrong way,\u201d warning that rising U.S. isolationism echoes mistakes that led to past world wars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nate Vance Criticizes Trump and JD Vance Over Ukraine Meeting Nate Vance, cousin of U.S. Vice President JD Vance and a former volunteer with the Ukrainian military, publicly criticized JD Vance and President Trump for their conduct toward Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a tense Oval Office meeting in February 2025. In a BBC interview,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=3254\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;JD Vance\u2019s cousin blasts him for being Putin\u2019s \u201cuseful idiot\u201d&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3255,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254\/revisions\/3255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}