'Caught my ear': Ex-Obama adviser flags what 'people missed' in Trump-Zelensky dust-up

Behind the stunning Oval Office blow-up targetingUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a key moment appeared “very odd” to veteran Democratic strategist David Axelrod.

The presidential dust-up instigated by President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance unfolded after Vance accused the Ukrainian leader of not being “thankful enough” to the new MAGA administration.

“It got very nasty very fast,” Axelrod said in a CNN interview Friday after delivering a large on-air sigh after the clip was played for viewers. He then revealed how Vance publicly broke with Trump – a moment he told CNN’s Dana Bash he “went back and listened to a couple of times.”

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“The one thing I think people have missed that kind of caught my ear,” Axelrod said. “Was Vance began by saying that Russia had invaded Ukraine and destroyed much of the country, that's something that the President of the United States won't say.”

The former senior Obama adviser added that in making the point, Vance – who he called the “provocateur” of the day – “he actually contradicted the president who refuses to say the same.”

He also pointed out that Vance’s public position went against “the spirit” of the United Nations vote earlier this week in which the U.S. sided with authoritarian regimes — including Russia, North Korea, Belarus, and Hungary — by opposing a UN resolution condemning Russian aggression against Ukraine.

“So, that was very odd to me,” Axelrod concluded.

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