Trump initially gushed over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to order troops into separatist-backed regions in Ukraine under the guise of a “peacekeeping” military pres…
“I said, ‘This is genius,’” the ex-president said on a right-wing podcast. “Putin declared a big portion of … Ukraine … as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful. … I said, ‘How smart is that?’ And he’s going to go in and be a peacekeeper. That’s strongest peace force. … We could use that on our southern border. That’s the strongest peace force I’ve ever seen. There were more army tanks than I’ve ever seen. They’re going to keep the peace all right.
Trump has a long history of doling out praise to the Russian leader. When Putin ordered the invasion of the Ukrainian region of Crimea in 2014, in fact,Also, when Putin denied interfering in the 2016 presidential election at a 2018 summit in Helsinki, Trump infamously defended the Russian leader, effectively thumbing his nose at his own intelligence agencies which concluded that Putin did, in fact, orchestrate election meddling.
“We did it twice, and we’ll do it again,” Trump said of running for president. “We’re going to be doing it again a third time. … November 2024 they will find out like never before.”
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