Vance: Wall Street Journal 'twisted my words' on Trump and Russia

Vice President Vance accused The Wall Street Journal of "twisting" his answer to a question about President Trump's stance on Russia during a recent interview he granted the outlet.

"President Trump is the ultimate deal maker and will bring peace to the region by ending the war in Ukraine," Vance wrote in a social media post sharing the Journal article. "As we've always said, American troops should never be put into harm's way where it doesn’t advance American interests and security. This war is between Russia and Ukraine."

Vance was highlighting an article from the Journal that said he had "pledged to hit Russia with sanctions and potentially military action if [Russian President Vladimir] Putin won’t agree to a peace deal that guarantees Ukraine's independence."

“There are economic tools of leverage, there are of course military tools of leverage” the U.S. could use against Putin, the Journal quoted Vance as saying. “There’s a whole host of things that we could do. But fundamentally, I think the president wants to have a productive negotiation, both with Putin and with [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelensky.”

The vice president said the Journal's framing of his comments was misleading.

"The fact that the WSJ twisted my words in the way they did for this story is absurd, but not surprising considering they have spent years pushing for more American sons and daughters in uniform to be unnecessarily deployed overseas," he wrote in another social media post referencing the outlet.

The vice president's attack comes as the White House and Trump have railed against the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper in recent weeks.

The Journal has published a number of editorials since Trump's inauguration critical of his economic policies, Cabinet nominees and executive orders.

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