One of the most loathsome figures in Deep State circles got owned over the weekend by Ric Grenell, the Trump administration’s special presidential envoy for special missions.

Rice insulted President Trump and flipped out over allegations she played a role in the White House blow-up on Friday involving Trump, Vice-President JD Vance, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The Gateway Pundit previously reported that President Trump and Vice President JD Vance teamed up during a fiery White House meeting on Friday to epically put Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in his place.

The disgraced Ukrainian leader arrived in Washington, D.C., to meet with Trump to discuss his rare earth mineral rights proposal.

Things went off the rails toward the end of the meeting when Zelenskyy tried to re-litigate the Ukrainian War in front of the media and embarrass Trump.

This moment came after Vance praised Trump’s diplomatic skills and slammed the Biden regime’s bumbling of the war.

Former National Security Adviser, Ambassador to the U.N., and infamous Barack Obama crony Susan Rice appeared on MSNBC following the blowup to complain that Team Trump had set up Zelenskyy and that the verbal brawl was “an embarrassment for the United States on the world stage.”

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The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway later pointed out she was wrong. Not only did Zelenskyy have previous opportunities to sign the mineral rights deal in Kyiv and Munich, but he also personally requested the meeting at the White House.

Hemingway also said that she and other Deep State goons might have been advising the Ukrainian President on how to behave in the meeting.

“It later came out that Rice and Tony Blinken, Victoria Nuland, and Alexander Vindman may have been personally advising Zelensky to do this meeting in the way he did — that they recommended him to be hostile and to try to goad Trump into blowing up.,” she wrote.

Yesterday, Susan Rice said of the Trump-Zelensky meeting, “There is no question this was a set up.” She revealed full knowledge of the mineral agreement, and complained that it didn’t include “concrete” security agrees (meaning, apparently, commitment of US troops on the ground if…

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) March 1, 2025

Rice blew up after reading this allegation and denied having ever spoken to the Ukrainian President. She proceeded to smear Trump, accusing him of sucking up to Vladimir Putin.

“You clowns are up to the same old tired crap. When your guy screws up and royally embarrasses himself and the U.S., you try to change the subject and lie about a favorite target to distract and deflect,” she wrote.

“For the record, I have never met Zelenskyy and never spoken to him. Ever. Or advised him or anybody around him,” Rice added. “It’s a shame that you contend that it is in the U.S. national interest to sell out Ukraine and suck up to Putin.”

You clowns are up to the same old tired crap. When your guy screws up and royally embarrasses himself and the U.S., you try to change the subject and lie about a favorite target to distract and deflect.

For the record, I have never met Zelenskyy and never spoken to him. Ever.… https://t.co/UHJHL1jrZR

— Susan Rice (@AmbassadorRice) March 1, 2025

After seeing Rice’s post, Grenell tore her to shreds in epic fashion.

“Your guy couldn’t even talk to Putin. For 3.5 years! Your policies helped usher in a war in Ukraine, Gaza…and Rwanda, if you remember,” he pointed out. “And then you lied about Libya – it wasn’t caused by a video. You made that up…. Donald Trump handed you peace in the Middle East and Europe – you handed us two wars.”

“We see you.”

Your guy couldn’t even talk to Putin. For 3.5 years!

Your policies helped usher in a war in Ukraine, Gaza…and Rwanda if you remember.

And then you lied about Libya – it wasn’t caused by a video. You made that up….

Donald Trump handed you peace in the Middle East and Europe… https://t.co/r6VIc0gIIC

— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) March 1, 2025

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This week, Europe is slamming President Trump for refusing to keep funding the Ukraine war. While European leaders scramble to figure out how to bankroll it and keep it going, China is busy hacking Poland’s space agency and Belgium’s intelligence services.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) loves when the U.S. and the world are focused on Russia because Beijing is the much larger security threat. And while Washington is distracted, Beijing never sleeps—the CCP and its United Front Work Department are hard at work undermining the U.S.

Late last year, a federal investigation exposed a broad Chinese cyberespionage campaign, with hackers infiltrating multiple U.S. telecommunications networks to steal information from government officials and political figures, according to the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

Hackers linked to Beijing compromised telecom networks, gaining access to call records and private communications of high-value individuals, mostly involved in government and politics. They also targeted sensitive law enforcement data, potentially attempting to breach FISA surveillance programs.

This revelation follows a string of Chinese cyberattacks, including Flax Typhoon, a hacking operation that infected over 200,000 consumer devices to build a botnet for further cyber crimes. Last month, Chinese hackers targeted the phones of Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Kamala Harris’s associates, underscoring Beijing’s aggressive digital espionage efforts.

Most recently, another U.S. telecom company was confirmed as a victim of China’s Salt Typhoon hacking campaign, which granted Beijing access to private calls and texts of an unknown number of Americans, according to a White House official. The hackers focused on the Washington-Virginia area, targeting government officials and political figures to identify high-value individuals and monitor their communications.

Additionally. researchers found over 12,000 exposed Cisco devices, with Salt Typhoon successfully breaching a critical subset of telecoms and universities. By configuring these devices to connect to their command-and-control servers via GRE tunnels, the hackers maintain persistent access, exfiltrate data, and continue posing a serious national security threat.

While China’s hacking threat is pervasive, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) employs many other methods to infiltrate the U.S. and compromise national security. A prime example is the case of U.S. Navy Petty Officer Thomas Zhao, whose arrest last year highlights the United Front Work Department’s (UFWD) role in espionage and its growing use of “virtual espionage”—a tactic where Chinese intelligence officers target U.S. military personnel and high-value individuals via social media.

Zhao was recruited through a stock trading chat group on WeChat, where a Chinese intelligence officer first engaged him in investment discussions before steering the conversation toward sensitive military topics.

Over two years, Zhao received $15,000 in exchange for classified photos and videos of restricted areas at his Southern California base, demonstrating how China exploits social media to penetrate U.S. military infrastructure.

FBI officials warn that China is aggressively using social media to infiltrate U.S. institutions, casting a wide net to manipulate and compromise individuals with access to sensitive information.

This case highlights Beijing’s persistent efforts to penetrate U.S. military infrastructure through unconventional intelligence-gathering methods, with many of these operations led by the United Front Work Department (UFWD).

The UFWD is a core arm of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) influence operations, working to expand Beijing’s political, economic, and ideological reach abroad.

While it presents itself as a diplomatic and cultural outreach effort, it is deeply embedded in intelligence gathering, elite co-optation, and disinformation campaigns. Operating through Chinese business, academia, and diaspora networks in the U.S., the UFWD works to shape public opinion, silence CCP critics, and advance China’s strategic interests.

China’s United Front Work Department (UFWD) is one of Beijing’s most effective yet overlooked global influence tools, blurring the line between soft power and covert operations.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) extends its reach through consulates, trade, investment, technology partnerships, media, and research entities, embedding itself in U.S. economic and political structures at multiple levels.

A key strategy in China’s influence campaign is subnational engagement, where Beijing cultivates relationships at state and local levels through economic, informational, and political tools.

Unlike federal authorities that focus on national security, local governments prioritize economic development and job growth, making them more receptive to Beijing’s overtures. These efforts bypass federal oversight, creating power centers that shape local policies in ways that ultimately influence national decisions.

Beijing frames these subnational activities as “win-win mutual benefit,” emphasizing economic returns and dialogue while masking its strategic intent.

Through organizations like the Chinese embassy, consulates, and the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), China leverages economic dependencies to shape narratives favorable to the CCP.

This not only distorts local markets but also entrenches long-term dependencies, aligning U.S. institutions and businesses with Beijing’s strategic interests at the expense of national security.

Despite these growing threats, U.S. policy responses remain fragmented and reactive. Efforts such as limiting Confucius Institutes or restricting Chinese investments are important but insufficient on their own.

A more coordinated strategy is needed, including alternative cultural exchanges, federal-state cooperation, and economic safeguards, to counter China’s influence while preserving democratic freedoms and economic security.

President Trump’s strong stance on China—through tariffs, trade restrictions, and limits on Chinese investment—is a critical step in countering Beijing’s threat.

Additionally, tightening border security will help reduce the number of Chinese agents entering the country, further safeguarding U.S. national security. However, the U.S. will be facing China alone, as Europe remains preoccupied with blaming America and fixating on Russia instead of addressing the real, long-term threat posed by Beijing.

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While Europe – cheered on by the Democrats and the USAID-media – are throwing a long, collective tantrum in defense of their ‘mini-Churchill’, Kiev leader Volodymyr Zelensky, the real players of our geopolitical world look on in appreciation as the Donald J. Trump’s administration set out vigorously to do exactly what they promised to do: end the war in Ukraine and reengage Russia into a new world of peace and prosperity.

Yesterday (2), Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov took some time to praise U.S. President Donald Trump’s ‘common sense’ aim to end the war, while torching the European ‘powers’ seeking to ‘prolong the conflict’.

Lavrov said that Washington and Moscow would never completely ‘see eye to eye’, but that they had agreed to be pragmatic when interests coincided.

Read: OPEN COMMS: After Trump and Putin Talk, Secretary Rubio and Foreign Minister Lavrov Work on ‘Foreign Conflict Issues’ and To ‘Restore Mutually Respectful Interstate Dialogue’

Reuters reported:

“President Vladimir Putin’s foreign minister of 21 years said the model of the U.S.-China relationship was the one that should be built between Russia and the United States to do a lot of ‘mutually beneficial things’ without allowing disagreements to collapse into war.

‘Donald Trump is a pragmatist’, Lavrov told the Russian military newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda, according to a transcript released by the Foreign Ministry. ‘His slogan is common sense. It means, as everyone can see, a shift to a different way of doing things’.

‘But the goal is still MAGA (Make America Great Again’), Lavrov said, referring to Trump’s political slogan. ‘This gives a lively, human character to politics. That’s why it’s interesting to work with him’.”

Trump has warned that the Ukraine war could easily devolve into World War III and revealed that he had spoken to Putin on ‘numerous occasions’..

On Friday, Zelensky went into Oval Office to publicly argue with Trump and Vice President JD Vance, leading the Americans to accusing Zelensky of ‘disrespecting the United States’, while saying to his face that he is losing the war badly, and has ‘no cards left’.

“But Lavrov criticized Europe, saying that for the past 500 years Europe had been the crucible of ‘all the tragedies of the world’ including colonization, wars, crusaders, the Crimean War, Napoleon Bonaparte, World War One and Adolf Hitler. ‘And now, after (former U.S. President Joe) Biden’s term, people have come in who want to be guided by common sense. They say directly that they want to end all wars, they want peace’, Lavrov said. ‘And who demands a ‘continuation of the banquet’ in the form of a war? Europe’.”

Lavrov also repeated a Russian negotiation point: no contingent of ‘European peacekeepers’ is acceptable.

“’Now they also want to prop him up with their bayonets in the form of peacekeeping units. This will mean that the root causes will not disappear’, Lavrov said.”

Watch: Lavrov says Zelensky is a ‘Nazi’ and a ‘traitor to the Jewish people’.

JUST IN: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Zelensky is a “Nazi” and a “traitor to the Jewish people.” pic.twitter.com/y0PH3IIMcb

— BRICS News (@BRICSinfo) March 2, 2025

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Secretary Rubio and Russia’s Lavrov Hold Negotiations for 4.5 Hours in Saudi Arabia – Historic Meeting Ushers in New Era of Collaboration, Economic and Diplomatic Engagement

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More infuriating details have emerged regarding Friday’s White House blowup involving Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President Trump, and Vice-President JD Vance.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, President Trump and Vice President JD Vance teamed up during a fiery White House meeting on Friday to epically put Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in his place. Zelenskyy arrived at the White House on Friday to meet with Trump to discuss his rare earth mineral rights proposal.

But things went off the rails toward the end when Zelenskyy tried to re-litigate the Ukrainian War in front of the media and tried to embarrass Trump. This came after Vance praised Trump’s diplomatic skills and slammed the Biden regime’s bumbling of the war.

“Do you think it respectful to come to the Oval Office of the United States of America and attack the administration that is trying to prevent the destruction of your country?” Vance asked Zelenskyy.

Zelensky is getting absolutely EVISCERATED in the Oval Office right now

VP: “Do you think that it’s respectful to come to the Oval Office of the United States of America and attack the administration that is trying to prevent the destruction of your country?”

TRUMP: “You… pic.twitter.com/q1na59UNq9

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 28, 2025

According to Fox News’s Peter Doocy, the Ukrainian President performed several disrespectful gestures for about half an hour that Trump could not see but Vance was aware of.

“The thing that really set the vice-president off was 30 minutes of head-shaking, smirking, and eye-rolling from Zelenskyy,” Doocy explained. “The president couldn’t see it when he was addressing the press.”

“But the rest of the top staffers saw it. It was the body language as much as anything…The ball started rolling down the hill way sooner.”

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EXCLUSIVE: Senior White House correspondent @pdoocy reveals what “lit a fire under the vice president” during the tense Trump-Zelenskyy showdown. pic.twitter.com/AJt5c8YhWv

— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 1, 2025

As the old saying goes, actions do speak louder than words.

Zelenskyy certainly won’t be laughing or rolling his eyes if the Trump Administration announces they are cutting off Ukraine for good. He will forced to either shake down the rest of Europe or beg Vladimir Putin for mercy.

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The U.S. Treasury Department announced on March 2 that it will cease enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and its associated Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) reporting requirements.

This decision follows conservative comedian and entrepreneur Terrence K. Williams tagging Elon Musk on X, urging him to take action against the burdensome Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) rule.

On Saturday, Williams wrote:

“ELON MUSK!!! I’m begging you!

Please ask President Trump to get rid of this ridiculous BOI rule that Biden Created

It’s targeting conservatives and small businesses!

I just received an email saying I must fill out Beneficial Ownership Information Report every year or be fined over 591 dollars a Day + 10k fine and Prison time

They don’t need to collect personal data every year, this is insane.”

Musk responded, “I can look into it.”

I can look into it

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 2, 2025

On Sunday, the Treasury Department announced it is suspending enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act for U.S. citizens and domestic reporting companies.

According to the press release:

“The Treasury Department is announcing today that, with respect to the Corporate Transparency Act, not only will it not enforce any penalties or fines associated with the beneficial ownership information reporting rule under the existing regulatory deadlines, but it will further not enforce any penalties or fines against U.S. citizens or domestic reporting companies or their beneficial owners after the forthcoming rule changes take effect either.

The Treasury Department will further be issuing a proposed rulemaking that will narrow the scope of the rule to foreign reporting companies only.

Treasury takes this step in the interest of supporting hard-working American taxpayers and small businesses and ensuring that the rule is appropriately tailored to advance the public interest.

“This is a victory for common sense,” said U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent. “Today’s action is part of President Trump’s bold agenda to unleash American prosperity by reining in burdensome regulations, in particular for small businesses that are the backbone of the American economy.”

President Donald Trump also expressed his approval of the decision.

Trump wrote on Truth Social:

Exciting news! The Treasury Department has announced that they are suspending all enforcement of the outrageous and invasive Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) reporting requirement for U.S. Citizens. This Biden rule has been an absolute disaster for Small Businesses Nationwide. Furthermore, Treasury is now finalizing an Emergency Regulation to formally suspend this rule for American businesses. The economic menace of BOI reporting will soon be no more.

This decision comes as a relief to millions of small businesses nationwide that faced intrusive mandates to disclose personal details about their owners to federal authorities.

The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) is a U.S. federal law enacted as part of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 to combat financial crimes such as money laundering, tax fraud, and illicit financing.

The law took effect on January 1, 2024, and requires certain companies to disclose their beneficial ownership information (BOI) to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department.

However, the law imposed undue burdens on legitimate small businesses, infringing upon privacy and states’ rights.

Key Provisions of the CTA:

1. Beneficial Ownership Reporting

   • Businesses must report individuals who own or control at least 25% of the company or exert significant control over it.
   • Report includes full name, date of birth, address, and a unique identifying number (e.g., passport or driver’s license).

2. Who Must Report?

   • Most small and medium-sized businesses formed in the U.S. or registered to do business in the U.S.
   • Exceptions include larger companies (with more than 20 full-time employees and over $5 million in revenue) and certain regulated industries (e.g., banks, investment firms).

3. Reporting Deadlines:

   • Companies formed before Jan. 1, 2024 must file by Jan. 1, 2025.
   • New businesses formed in 2024 have 90 days from registration.
   • New businesses formed after 2024 have 30 days to report.

4. Penalties for Non-Compliance:

   • Fines up to $500 per day for failure to report.
   • Criminal penalties including fines up to $10,000 and up to 2 years in prison for willfully providing false information

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