At a time when Putin increasingly behaved like an authoritarian leader and US-Russia relations were reaching their worst point since the Cold War, Trump repeatedly praised and defended him. Throughout his presidency, Trump's dynamic with Putin was controversial and often led to domestic criticism. We used to talk about it at length," Trump said.
You're not going to do it.' But I could see that he wanted it.
He also wanted Zelensky to pursue an inquiry into a bogus conspiracy theory that Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in the 2016 presidential election.Īsked what went wrong with respect to Ukraine, Trump on Tuesday repeated his long-standing and false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him. Trump froze the congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine as he pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to launch investigations into Biden and his son Hunter over baseless allegations of corruption. The war has killed over 13,000 people and displaced 1.5 million. Moreover, Trump was impeached in 2019, in part, for withholding about $400 million in military aid from Ukraine as it contended with this conflict against Kremlin-backed rebels. Trump's assertion that Putin moved to invade Ukraine because Trump was no longer in office ignored that Russia was fueling a war against Ukrainian forces in the Donbas throughout his time in the White House. But the way he - and he loves his country, you know? He loves his country." "I mean, you know, he's a tough cookie, got a lot of the great charm and a lot of pride.
Trump baselessly claimed that the reason the Russian president chose to invade Ukraine now - rather than during his own presidency - was that he had a better relationship with Putin than President Joe Biden did. "I said, 'How smart is that?' And he's going to go in and be a peacekeeper." Oh, that's wonderful," Trump said when asked about the news. "I went in yesterday, and there was a television screen, and I said, 'This is genius.' Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine - of Ukraine - Putin declares it as independent.
In an appearance on the " Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show," Trump said Putin's recognition of the independence of the Ukrainian breakaway republics of Donetsk and Luhansk - two-thirds of which are controlled by Ukraine and are not recognized by most other nations but backed by Russia - was a smart move. It often indicates a user profile.įormer President Donald Trump praised Vladimir Putin in a podcast interview on Tuesday, describing the Russian president's justification for invading Ukraine as "savvy" and "genius." Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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