U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance has accused the Wall Street Journal of deliberately misquoting him on threatening to send U.S. troops to Ukraine if Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn’t sign a peace deal. “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 on X.
The Journal responded to Vance’s accusation by releasing the full transcript of the interview. “I want the killing to stop,” it shows Vance saying. “I want Ukraine to be a sovereign country, and everything else is going to be on the table.” Later, it shows him saying there are “instruments of pressure” that President Donald Trump could use against Russian President Vladimir Putin, including “economic tools of leverage” and “of course, military tools of leverage.”