‘Nauseating’: Fox News’ Andy McCarthy Nukes Trump From Orbit Over ‘Putin Infatuation,’ Torches ‘Insidious’ Vance
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Fox News contributor Andy McCarthy held nothing back in a scathing new column taking President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance to task for the already infamous Oval Office dust-up between themselves and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Under the headline “Blame Trump for the Oval Office Fiasco with Zelensky” at National Review, McCarthy argued that while Zelensky may have “performed incompetently” in the meeting, it was Trump who was “at fault.”
“Yes, Ukraine’s president performed incompetently. But with due respect to many of my friends and colleagues, to pretend that the real problem here is Volodymyr Zelensky’s heedlessness rather than President Trump’s nature and moral cluelessness — his mulish determination to be a neutral arbiter between a monstrous anti-American predator and its beleaguered, pro-Western prey — is as crazy as Trump’s apparent conviction that Vladimir Putin is an ally waiting to happen (or, as the Bush-43 administration put it while similarly smitten, a ‘strategic partner’),” wrote McCarthy.
“President Trump’s Putin infatuation? Yeah, it’s nauseating. In fact, I find it substantially indistinguishable from the way President Obama swooned when talking about Islamists,” he continued before going on to slam Trump’s top lieutenant:
I’s impossible to watch the 50 minutes of cringe without noticing the rehearsed manner of Vance’s demagogic provocations — as the White House, not Zelensky, let the televised spectacle go on for at least a half-hour too long. Vance was insidious, spouting lies (Zelensky hasn’t said “thank you” . . . except, you know, for the eight zillion times he’s said thank you — and that was only on Friday) in an effort to bluster past (a) the administration’s lack of a coherent answer to the question of why any sentient person would trust Putin to honor a cease-fire, and (b) the administration’s previous slew of lies — e.g., Trump had a plan to end the war in 24 hours; Russia has “lost” 1.5 million soldiers (the number killed is probably smaller than 200,000, with around half a million wounded); we’ve given Ukraine $350 billion (an exaggeration by a factor of at least two and more likely three); Zelensky is a “dictator”; Ukraine “started” the war (apparently by living next door to an unreconstructed KGB monster who can’t help himself but invade and annex); blah, blah, blah.
“It’s all shameful,” lamented McCarthy. “Even if you want out of Ukraine entirely, what’s the case for the United States of America getting to that outcome by serial falsehoods? Still, there was only one person in the Oval Office who is in charge of directing U.S. foreign policy, and it’s not Vance. It is President Trump.”
The longtime conservative commentator and former federal prosecutor concluded his indictment of the president like this:
You always have to hope that Trump is more rational behind the scenes than he appears to be publicly. I say “hope” because I have my doubts. I’m not convinced he’s that canny; I think the Trump you see is the Trump you get. For all I know, he really is commiserating with Putin over how the Democrats slandered “them.” If so, what I mainly wonder is how Putin gets through such conversations with a straight face.
“In any event, when the president of the United States doesn’t recognize America’s enemies, when he hallucinates them into America’s friends because he thinks he personally has an amicable, potentially fruitful relationship with the odious tyrants who run them, then America is courting disaster,” he finished.
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