Vice President JD Vance has expressed fondness for how “soft-spoken” Russian President Vladimir Putin is compared with media portrayals.

Speaking to Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, Vance, who berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office in February for failing to be sufficiently thankful for U.S. aid, said that while he has never met Putin in person, he has spoken to him several times and praised his phone manner.

“I’ve actually never met Putin. The president did that meeting. I’ve talked to him on the phone a number of times,” Vance said in reference to the flop Alaska summit between Trump and Putin last week, where the leaders failed to agree on a ceasefire in Ukraine.

“You know, it’s interesting. He’s more soft-spoken than you would necessarily expect. You know that th

See Full Page