White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt delivered a scathing rebuke of the media on Tuesday during a press briefing after President Trump brought the world to the verge of solving the years-long war between Russia and Ukraine.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and seven European Leaders to negotiate a peace agreement after meeting with Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday.
During the meeting, Trump revealed that Russian President Vladimir Putin had agreed to a deal that would involve security guarantees for Ukraine, which Ukraine has made as one of its central demands to end the war.
President Trump later spoke with Putin privately and announced that Putin agreed to meet with Zelensky and later participate in a trilateral meeting with Trump and Zelensky.
Biden was in office for nearly three years as the war raged on, but Trump got everyone to the negotiating table in a matter of months. Leavitt told accurately reporters, “Under George W. Bush, Russia invaded Georgia. Under Barack Obama, Russia took Crimea. Under Joe Biden, Russia invaded Ukraine, but under President Trump, Russia did not invade, nor take anything. President Trump is the only President this century, Republican or Democrat, who has held Russia in check and ensured peace in Europe.”
“While previous Presidents have traveled halfway around the world to apologize for America, President Trump stands up for America, and he has firmly restored America’s status as the undisputed leader of the free world,” Leavitt said.
“However, one thing that has absolutely not changed is the media’s negative and downright false coverage of President Trump and his foreign policy accomplishments.”
It can be recalled that after President Trump met with Putin last week in Anchorage, Alaska, the leftist media had a field day, reporting that Trump was being too soft on Russia, showing weakness to Putin, or planning to bully Zelensky into accepting a bad deal, among other absurd claims.
Leavitt highlighted the historic accomplishment by President Trump during her opening remarks at Tuesday’s briefing and shredded the fake news media, accusing them of attempting to “actively undermine the president and sabotage the efforts towards peace.”
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Leavitt: What we’ve witnessed President Trump accomplish over the last few days has been nothing short of remarkable. We are now three and a half years into the war between Russia and Ukraine, a brutal conflict that has claimed hundreds of thousands of Russian and Ukrainian lives and cost trillions of dollars. The weakness and incompetence of Joe Biden foolishly allowed the killing to start in the first place. Until President Trump returned to office in January, the bloody and broken Biden status quo was to endlessly force American taxpayers to fund Ukraine, no matter the cost, no matter how long it takes, and no matter how many lives were lost. There is no denying that Biden’s America Last foreign policy moved the world further away from Peace.
President Trump rejected that failed approach and, instead, over the last seven months, has relentlessly pursued peace throughout his second term, and thanks to President Trump’s efforts, we finally have movement after years of deadly gridlock. On Friday, as you all know, many of you were there—President Trump hosted Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, for a bilateral meeting. This was the first time President Putin has been to the United States since 2015 and the first time he has met with an American president in years. President Putin publicly confirmed what President Trump has said all along: The war between Russia and Ukraine never would have started in the first place if President Trump were in office. This was always obvious to any person with a shred of common sense. Just look at what took place during the last four administrations. Under George W. Bush, Russia invaded Georgia. Under Barack Obama, Russia took Crimea. Under Joe Biden, Russia invaded Ukraine, but under President Trump, Russia did not invade, nor take anything.
President Trump is the only President this century, Republican or Democrat, who has held Russia in check and ensured peace in Europe. That’s because Russia has always greatly respected President Trump and his peace through strength foreign policy approach. But overall, the bilateral talks in Alaska were very productive, and multiple key points were agreed to between the two leaders that truly opened up the door for phase two discussions, which took place yesterday here at the White House, within 48 hours of that meeting in Anchorage, I may add. As you all know, there were many European leaders here, as well as Ukrainian President Zelensky. They all traveled here to meet with President Trump to maintain the momentum and work toward a lasting peace. Across the board, every leader credited President Trump for his decisive leadership that has reignited the dialogue in hopes of finally bringing this war to a peaceful conclusion.
Two quotes in particular capture the progress that was made and the optimism moving forward. Finnish President Alexander Stone said, “I think in the past two weeks, we’ve probably had more progress in ending this war than we’ve had in the past three and a half years.” Again, that is the President of Finland, a country that shares a border with Russia. That’s what we call the President Trump Effect. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte also summed it up well. Without President Trump, this deadlock with Putin would not have been broken. He is the only one who could do this. Following the encouraging conversations yesterday, President Trump spoke with President Putin by phone, and he agreed to begin the next phase of the peace process, a meeting between President Putin and President Zelensky, which would be followed, if necessary, by a trilateral meeting between President Putin, President Zelensky, and President Trump. As the President said, Vice President Vance, Secretary Rubio, and Special Envoy Witkoff will continue to coordinate with Russia and Ukraine to make this happen as soon as possible. It’s very important to remember that before President Trump’s landslide victory last November, there was no end in sight to this bloodshed. Now there may finally be light at the end of the tunnel and an opportunity for lasting peace. That’s because President Trump is the peace president, and American leadership is back on the world stage.
It should not be lost on anyone in this room that world leaders are coming right here to Washington, DC, for help. While previous Presidents have traveled halfway around the world to apologize for America, President Trump stands up for America, and he has firmly restored America’s status as the undisputed leader of the free world. However, one thing that has absolutely not changed is the media’s negative and downright false coverage of President Trump and his foreign policy accomplishments. From the beginning of this entire process, much of the left-wing media has been actively rooting against the President of the United States in the pursuit of peace. Initially, the media ridiculously claimed that President Trump was somehow beholden to Russia for even agreeing to have a face-to-face discussion with President Putin inside of the United States. The media said President Trump was making a grave mistake by “legitimizing Putin.” They were aghast that President Trump would treat another world leader like a world leader. The media relentlessly attacked President Trump and claimed he suffered a “major defeat” for not immediately emerging with a final agreement, even though he said, heading into that meeting, this was a meeting to listen and to understand how to move the ball forward.
All weekend, following those historic US-Russia bilateral talks, we listened to clueless pundits on television, trying, but failing, to claim that the President had failed. The so called experts in the foreign policy establishmnt, whose record is nothing but endless wars, trillions of wasted taxpayer dollars, and dead Americans, have the nerve to try and lecture President Trump, who has solved seven global conflicts in seven months, about peace. This is the same president, by the way, who brokered the Abraham Accords in his first term, on top of more than half a dozen other peace deals this year alone as I just said. We also saw, yesterday, the President of Ukraine and all of the other major leaders of Europe fly across the Atlantic Ocean to meet President Trump at the White House because of the progress that was made in that, if you ask the media, failed meeting, but it was not. It was highly productive and it was successful. This is why Americans trust in the mass media is at the lowest point in more than five decades. Diplomacy is a delicate process, and instead of reporting the facts about what is happening here at this White House and what is happening between this President and other leaders around the world, many outlets in this room continue to try to actively undermine the president and sabotage the efforts towards peace. That is why I felt the need to set the record straight.
Leavitt later encountered a New York Times reporter attempting to smear the President and make a spectacle of his Tuesday phone call with Putin, and she nuked him and the New York Times for asking such a stupid, narrative-driven question, The Gateway Pundit reported.
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