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flag jrocksdh
Posted: Feb 24, 2022 at 9:07 Quote
Anybody surprised this happened under Biden's watch?
John kerry says he'll talk to Putin and convince him that climate change is more important...

This is what failure and weakness looks like folks.
Allies being sold out left and right.
flag jrocksdh
Posted: Feb 24, 2022 at 17:47 Quote
Maybe NATO will hire Justin to find and freeze(sanction) Putin's $(friends/family).
flag Matt115lamb
Posted: Feb 25, 2022 at 0:25 Quote
The world needs this chump back lol

https://youtu.be/o0UtTakw41U
flag jrocksdh
Posted: Feb 25, 2022 at 8:47 Quote
David pakman..he'd be a good SNL news guy.
And yes, the world is missing Trump the chump.
flag jrocksdh
Posted: Feb 27, 2022 at 8:12 Quote
Russians apparently not doing too well.
Serious lessons going on.
PUTIN moved in on too many fronts-supply chain issues.
Keep your citizens armed/trained.
Citizens(able men) will usually flee(flight) than fight...
And that's what's happening with Russian conscription...supposedly.
Opposite is true for Ukrainians.
f*ck em up Ukraine!
flag DoubleCrownAddict
Posted: Feb 28, 2022 at 6:39 Quote
jrocksdh wrote:
Anybody surprised this happened under Biden's watch?
John kerry says he'll talk to Putin and convince him that climate change is more important...

This is what failure and weakness looks like folks.
Allies being sold out left and right.

⬆️lol ⬆️lol ⬆️

✅Classic example of how hilariously stupid and uninformed Trump supporters are.

Get a fricking clue ❗

✅One of Trump's first priorities all the way back in 2016 was to change the Republican platform and no longer be in favor of giving military aid to Ukraine. Why would he do Putin's bidding all the way back in 2016? That was so bizarre, but now it all makes sense considering how Trump acted towards Russia and Putin.

Trump called Putin a 'Genius' for invading Ukraine and said it would only cost Russia $2 in sanctions❗
Facepalm

Putin was a complete blundering idiot for Invading Ukraine and the sanctions are absolutely destroying the Russian economy. But Trump is was obviously rooting for Putin.

Every time Trump has been asked about Putin's bad deeds, he immediately turns the conversation to how America has done bad things also cause he can't seem to be critical of Putin.

For Trump, Ukraine was nothing but a tool to be used in his failed reelection, as we saw in his first impeachment trial.

Fox news Laura Ingram and Tucker Carlson have both sided with Russian propaganda talking points in the last week.



A Second Trump Term Would Not Have Stopped Putin From Invading Ukraine | Opinion
NICHOLAS CREEL , ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF BUSINESS LAW, GEORGIA COLLEGE AND STATE UNIVERSITY


Several prominent Republicans are currently claiming that, were Donald Trump still president, Russia would have never dared to invade Ukraine. Not only does this sort of talk needlessly turn our foreign policy into a partisan issue, it is also resting on assertions that are offensively disconnected from reality.


The core of this contention rests on the idea that Trump was a strong leader who Russian President Vladimir Putin would have never dared crossed. The notion that Trump would have shown so much strength as to have deterred Russian aggression requires that we forget both who Trump is and what he did as president. Even a cursory look at these two things will yield ample evidence which suggests that the former president would have been neither capable nor willing to do anything to stop Ukraine's invasion.

The only conceivable reason Putin wouldn't have invaded Ukraine under a second Trump term is that it very likely wouldn't have been necessary—with such an obsequious president who was seemingly hellbent on undermining or even withdrawing the U.S. entirely from NATO. This defense alliance, initially created to curb the expansion of the Soviet Union further into Europe, has remained the bane of Russia's existence as it has expanded east in recent years. Every time NATO adds former members of the old Soviet Union, the influence of Russia is further diminished.


Putin's decision to invade Ukraine therefore rests, in no small part, on the fear that Ukraine could join said alliance and annihilate its long standing hold over Eastern Europe. Trump was, at best, outwardly indifferent to Ukraine joining NATO. President Joe Biden, on the other hand, openly told Ukraine not even three months ago that membership was essentially theirs for the taking. If anything, it is precisely because Biden took this stronger stance that cuts against Russian interests that Putin felt he had no choice but to take Ukraine by force now, before it enjoyed a powerful shield of protection from the United States and Western Europe.

Let's also remember when Trump threw his own intelligence agencies under the bus in Helsinki in a servile gesture to the Russian dictator and has never passed up an occasion to speak flattering words of him. Trump's infatuation with Putin continues even today, exemplified by his latest statement that called Putin's initial illegal invasion into Ukraine "genius." This is anything but the talk of someone who we can have expected to take a strong stance against the ruthless Russian dictator. If anything, it's the sort of talk that would now leave our NATO allies in Eastern Europe questioning whether the U.S. would defend them if Russia decided to take back even more territory from its former Soviet satellites.

Least we forget, we indisputably know that Trump held up military aid to Ukraine as he sought to extort the president thereof into kickstarting an investigation into President Biden's son. In point of fact, it's the reason Trump was impeached, for his first time. Ukraine, like most everything else in Trump's life, was never more than a tool to further his own interests




After 4 Years Of Helping Putin, Trump Claims He Was Tough On Russian Dictator
S.V. Date
February 26, 2022, 5:02 pm

Former President Donald Trump speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Rosen Shingle Creek on Feb. 26 in Orlando, Florida. (Photo: Joe Raedle via Getty Images)
ORLANDO, Fla. ― Former President Donald Trump on Saturday continued to claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not have invaded Ukraine had Trump been in the White House ― an assertion that ignores how Trump spent four years advancing policies that matched Putin’s longtime goals.

“It would have been so easy for me to stop this travesty,” Trump said, while continuing to perpetuate his lie that the 2020 election was “stolen” from him. “As everyone understands, this horrific event would not have happened if there wasn’t a rigged election and I was president.”


Trump was speaking to a few thousand attendees at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, all of them packed into the expansive main ballroom at Orlando’s Rosen Shingle Creek hotel, just off the main tourist drag south of the city.

Earlier this week, Trump praised Putin as “savvy” and a “genius” for seizing an entire country and suffering only “two dollars’ worth of sanctions.”

Thirteen months after leaving office, Trump remains the most influential voice in the Republican Party, particularly among the sorts of activists drawn to events like CPAC. Hundreds of attendees wore “Make American Great Again” caps, “Trump 2024” T-shirts and “Trump Won” buttons. The biggest, busiest vendors in the exhibit hall were the ones selling Trump gear.


From the stage, the one person getting the most shout-outs and praise was the president who tried to overthrow the republic in his attempt to remain in power despite losing his election by millions of votes.

“This is Donald Trump’s party, and I’m a Donald Trump Republican,” said Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, a few hours before Trump’s arrival.

Saturday night, Trump continued his attacks on U.S. and NATO leaders, blaming President Joe Biden, a Democrat, for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. “They’re not so smart. They’re looking the opposite of smart,” Trump said. “Putin is playing Biden like a drum, and it’s not a pretty thing.”

Trump repeatedly praised Putin for at least a decade prior to running for president as he tried to build a condominium tower in Moscow. In a 2007 letter, he told Putin he was “a big fan.”

Trump continued to push his “Trump Tower Moscow” project even as he ran for president in 2015 and 2016, and publicly praised Putin as a better leader than then-President Barack Obama.

In 2016, Trump openly asked for Russia’s help as he ran against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. He subsequently used material stolen by Russian spies to attack Clinton every day in the final stretch of the race, even though he knew it had been stolen by Russian spies.

Once in the White House, Trump repeatedly attacked NATO and the European Union ― actions that aligned with Putin’s long-term objectives of weakening or destroying both institutions. He falsely claimed that the military alliance created by the United States after World War II and the free-trade zone were somehow cheating Americans. He mused about withdrawing from NATO entirely, and reportedly intended to do so in a second term.

Trump also continued to praise Putin and defend him, even telling the world in 2018 that he believed Putin over his own intelligence agencies regarding Putin’s work to get Trump elected. A year later, he tried to have Russia readmitted to the G7 group of large democratic economies, from which it was expelled for invading and annexing Crimea in 2014. Trump said he understood Russia’s need to keep the Crimean Peninsula because it had built a base there for its “large and powerful submarines.”

Also in 2019, Trump tried to extort Volodymyr Zelenskyy, then the newly elected president of Ukraine, into smearing Biden, at the time the Democrat he most feared as a 2020 opponent, using $391 million in congressionally approved military aid as leverage. The aid was released only after a whistleblower complaint about it became public, and the episode was the basis of the first of Trump’s two impeachments.

Trump, despite losing the election by 7 million votes nationally and 306-232 in the Electoral College, became the first president in more than two centuries of elections to refuse to hand over power peacefully. His incitement of the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol ― his last-ditch attempt to remain in office ― killed five people, including a police officer. The attack also injured another 140 officers and led to four police suicides.

Trump is now under investigation by federal and state officials in multiple jurisdictions. New York state Attorney General Letitia James has been conducting a civil probe of his family business, while the district attorney in Manhattan has been running a criminal investigation.

Meanwhile, the district attorney in Fulton County, Georgia, has impaneled a special grand jury to focus on Trump’s attempt to coerce state officials to “find” enough votes to overturn his loss of that state to Biden in 2020.

And the House Jan. 6 committee has been subpoenaing more and more former and current Trump aides to determine his precise role in that day’s events, while the Department of Justice has confirmed that it is investigating at least one element of Trump’s scheme to remain in power: the submission of fake Trump “electors” in states that Biden won.

At a Jan. 29 rally, Trump asked his followers to stage “the biggest protests we have ever had in Washington, D.C., in New York, in Atlanta and elsewhere” if prosecutors come after him, “because our country and our elections are corrupt.”

Despite this, Trump continues to dominate his party and is openly speaking about running for the presidency again in 2024.

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flag DoubleCrownAddict
Posted: Feb 28, 2022 at 6:55 Quote
Here is how Trump tried to stop Ukrainian aid all the way back in 2016, before he even knew anything about Ukraine. Just shows that the #1 priority was to help Putin from day one.





Trump campaign guts GOP’s anti-Russia stance on Ukraine

Donald Trump is expected to be officially nominated as the Republican candidate for president on July 18.
By Josh RoginJuly 18, 2016

✅The Trump campaign worked behind the scenes last week to make sure the new Republican platform won’t call for giving weapons to Ukraine to fight Russian and rebel forces, contradicting the view of almost all Republican foreign policy leaders in Washington.

✅Throughout the campaign, Trump has been dismissive of calls for supporting the Ukraine government as it fights an ongoing Russian-led intervention. Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, worked as a lobbyist for the Russian-backed former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych for more than a decade.

Still, Republican delegates at last week’s national security committee platform meeting in Cleveland were surprised when the Trump campaign orchestrated a set of events to make sure that the GOP would not pledge to give Ukraine the weapons it has been asking for from the United States.


Inside the meeting, Diana Denman, a platform committee member from Texas who was a Ted Cruz supporter, proposed a platform amendment that would call for maintaining or increasing sanctions against Russia, increasing aid for Ukraine and “providing lethal defensive weapons” to the Ukrainian military.

“Today, the post-Cold War ideal of a ‘Europe whole and free’ is being severely tested by Russia’s ongoing military aggression in Ukraine,” the amendment read. “The Ukrainian people deserve our admiration and support in their struggle.”


Delegates and party leaders gather in Cleveland to name their presidential nominee.
Trump staffers in the room, who are not delegates but are there to oversee the process, intervened. By working with pro-Trump delegates, they were able to get the issue tabled while they devised a method to roll back the language.


✅On the sideline, Denman tried to persuade the Trump staffers not to change the language, but failed. “I was troubled when they put aside my amendment and then watered it down,” Denman told me. “I said, ‘What is your problem with a country that wants to remain free?’ It seems like a simple thing.”

Finally, Trump staffers wrote an amendment to Denman’s amendment that stripped out the platform’s call for “providing lethal defensive weapons” and replaced it with softer language calling for “appropriate assistance.”

That amendment was voted on and passed. When the Republican Party releases its platform Monday, the official Republican party position on arms for Ukraine will be at odds with almost all the party’s national security leaders.

“This is another example of Trump being out of step with GOP leadership and the mainstream in a way that shows he would be dangerous for America and the world,” said Rachel Hoff, another platform committee member who was in the room.


✅Trump’s view of Russia has always been friendlier than most Republicans. He’s said he would “get along very well” with Vladimir Putin and called it a “great honor” when Putin praised him. Trump has done a lot of business in Russia and has been traveling there since 1987. Last August, he said of Ukraine joining NATO, “I wouldn’t care.” He traveled there in September, and he told Ukrainians their war is “really a problem that affects Europe a lot more than it affects us.”


For Trump, the biggest threat to Europe is not Russia, according to people familiar with his thinking. He believes the United States should focus on helping Europe fight Islamist terrorism and open borders, not confronting Putin. ✅He has called for a reduction of the U.S. commitment to NATO. He simply doesn’t see Russia as a dangerous threat.


For Denman, the Trump campaign’s actions betrayed the U.S. commitment to supporting struggling democracies around the world, which she considers a core Republican value.

“The Ukrainian people are trying to come out of the past and stay free. We owe to those who are fighting for freedom still to give them a helping hand,” she said.

“I’m very passionate and supportive of the Reagan foreign policy of peace through strength.”

Trump too often invokes Ronald Reagan when talking about America’s role in the world. But although Reagan negotiated with the Soviet Union, he also stood up to Russian aggression in Europe and defended democratic principles abroad.

When the platform comes out, Republicans will see how far from the Reagan doctrine their party has drifted, thanks to Trump.





Here's another nuclear bomb against the argument that Putin wouldn't have attacked if Trump was still in office.⬇️

Eek Trump picked Bolton to work for him❗Eek


FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER JOHN BOLTON SAID TRUMP’S DELAY OF MILITARY AID TO UKRAINE IN 2019 MADE CLEAR TO PUTIN EXACTLY HOW LITTLE TRUMP CARED ABOUT UKRAINE.

John Bolton: Trump Made It ‘That Much Easier’ for Putin to Invade Ukraine
Putin “saw that Trump had contempt for the Ukrainians. I think that had an impact,” Trump's former national security adviser told VICE News.
CJ
By Cameron Joseph
March 1, 2022, 11:07am



President Trump’s former top national security adviser thinks his old boss did “a lot of damage” to U.S.-Ukraine relations during his time in office—and emboldened Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Former National Security Adviser John Bolton said Trump’s delay of military aid to Ukraine in 2019, as he pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for dirt on then-presidential candidate Joe Biden, made clear to Putin exactly how little Trump cared about Ukraine.

“He obviously saw that Trump had contempt for the Ukrainians. I think that had an impact,” Bolton told VICE News on Tuesday.

Bolton, a top Republican foreign policy hawk who also served as President George W. Bush’s United Nations Ambassador, fought hard inside the Trump administration to make sure the military aid Trump was withholding eventually got released, over protestations from Trump lackeys—then promptly resigned from office. He said he doesn’t regret that he didn’t testify at Trump’s first impeachment trial, which investigated Trump’s attempts at a quid pro quo in Ukraine, but said that he thought a broader investigation “could have led to impeachable offenses.”

Bolton spoke with VICE News about his experiences within the Trump administration as Trump bullied Zelenskyy, the impact that had on Ukraine’s ability to deter or fight off an invasion, and his thoughts on Trump recently calling Putin a “genius.”

This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

Cameron Joseph: Do you think that Trump's quid pro quo attempts may have emboldened Putin in his attempts to seize Ukraine?

John Bolton: He obviously saw that Trump had contempt for the Ukrainians. I think that had an impact.

Right after Zelenskyy was elected, but before he was inaugurated, there was a telephone conversation between Trump and Putin. Trump said something like ‘what do you know about him?’ And Putin’s response was kind of snarky. He said, ‘We in Russia know a lot about him,’ because they had watched him in his comedy show on Russian television. And the impression was ‘we think we think the guy’s a lightweight.’ Trump didn't dispute that, obviously. But it was clear that Putin was waiting to see whether there'd be any defense of Zelenskyy [from Trump], and certainly there was not.


I think that Putin could have come away from that conversation reinforced in the view that Trump didn't have any warm feelings for Zelenskyy.

You wrote in your book that Trump told you he “wasn’t in favor of sending [Ukraine] anything until all the Russia-investigation materials related to Clinton and Biden had been turned over.” What impact do you think that had on the current situation in Ukraine?

The interjection of Ukraine into the U.S. presidential election in 2019 and 2020 had a significant negative effect on U.S.-Ukraine relations, certainly as long as Trump was in the White House. A lot of people ask the question, ‘Why did Putin wait until Biden was president, why didn’t he attack when Trump was president,’ which is often offered by Trump supporters to show how tough or how insane people thought Trump was, and that Putin waited for Biden.

But during the election campaign things just kept getting worse for Ukraine. And Putin, like a lot of other people, probably thought that Trump would win, and he was just going to wait. But once the election was over, and Biden obviously won, a lot of damage had been done.

You still have people in the United States who think the DNC server’s there, that Hunter Biden's making zillions of dollars there, that sort of thing. And it all stems from this Trump obsession, based on his own political future, that really made sensible conversation about bilateral U.S.-Ukraine issues very, very difficult. To the extent that there was an unnatural environment created, it made it that much easier for Putin. I don't think it was dispositive, but it was a factor, that's for sure.


Do you think the delay in military aid to Ukraine had any impact on its ability to defend itself [militarily] once Russia decided to invade?

You know, I don't think so.

The fiscal year is September the 30th. And one of the reasons in this June, July, August, September [2019] period we were getting increasingly frantic was a big chunk of the security assistance, I think was the $250 million chunk, would disappear on September the 30th. So the pressure to avoid that was what was really driving us. I resigned on September the 10th believing at that time, it was only a matter of days until the money was obligated. And indeed, it was obligated the next day.

But the difference between obligating it in September versus obligating it in June is trivial. If they had obligated the year before maybe that would have made a difference, because then all the subsequent deliveries of the weapons would have been speeded up. But just in looking at the effect of the Trump controversy, the delay at best was a couple of months. So now it's 2022. That was summer 2019. It's hard to say there's any measurable effect from that delay.

Given the horror we're seeing in Ukraine, do you think that adds any context for how you think people should view what Trump said and did in 2019?

Trump had no idea what the stakes were in Ukraine.

He once asked [then-White House Chief of Staff] John Kelly if Finland was part of Russia. What he cared about was the DNC server, and Hunter Biden, and the 2016 election, and the 2020 election. That's what it was all about. And I think he had next to no idea what the larger issues were.


✅We’ve seen Trump praise Putin, at least compliment his intellect, in the last couple of days. What do you make of his comments calling Putin a ‘genius’ and praise from other conservatives like Tucker Carlson and Mike Pompeo about Putin’s strategic thought over the last couple of days?

I think it's embarrassing for the United States. It's one thing to assess your opponent and his strengths and weaknesses in a very clear-eyed manner. But to glorify them is something different. And that is what I think Trump and others have done. Not simply acknowledging the strengths and the weaknesses [of Putin] but boasting about them. I think that's embarrassing, at a minimum.

You said a couple weeks ago that Trump would have ‘given away Ukraine’ and Russia ‘would have already been in Kiev by now.’ Can you expand upon that?

I just don't think he cared about it.

It's hard for me to describe how little he knows. And that sort of thing colors everything about my impressions of him and the people who agree with him. When you're operating on such a poor understanding of the circumstances you're talking about, ultimately, your opinions have to be totally unsound. And ultimately reality triumphs, and these opinions are seen for the flimsy and twisted thoughts that they really are.

How do you think Trump would have responded if he'd been in office when Putin invaded Ukraine?

Well, I'm not sure he would have done much of anything, frankly. But you never know with Trump. It depends on what time of day it is, it depends on what he thought his political benefit would be at any given moment. I don't think ultimately he would have stood in Putin’s way. [Sarcastically]: He never got that server! Those Ukrainians wouldn’t give him the server!

I’m sure they wish it had existed.

[Laughing]: They should have given him a server and said, ‘hey, we found that may have been erased, but here's the server.’

Given all of what you've seen over the last few months and what's happened now, do you have any regret that you declined to testify to the House impeachment committee in 2019?

No, because it wouldn't have made any difference. I didn't decline, they never subpoenaed me. I offered to testify in the Senate, and they wouldn't subpoena me either. But the fact is, there was an overwhelming majority of Republicans who thought that if Trump had done everything he was accused of doing in Ukraine, it did not rise to the level of an impeachable offense. So my testimony or anybody else's wasn't gonna make any difference.

Do you personally think that what he did was an impeachable offense in Ukraine?

There was a pattern of conduct that Trump had engaged in, that put together and expanded with further investigation … could have led to impeachable offenses.

But the Democrats had absolutely insisted that this wasn't going beyond Ukraine. And it was done in a partisan way, which meant you were never going to get the two-thirds in Senate. And I was convinced that this was going to make things worse, not better.

Nancy Pelosi always says, ‘He will be forever impeached.’ Well, that's wonderful. He will also be forever acquitted. So at the end of the first impeachment, ask yourself this question. Did that whole process constrain Trump, deter him? Or did it embolden him? He said to himself, ‘I beat them once, I can beat them again.’

I guess I'm asking a different question. I understand all your critiques and criticisms of the process. But do you think Trump deserved to be removed from office for his actions towards Ukraine and other actions you mentioned in your book, like towards China?

He was removed from office—the right way. He was defeated politically.
flag jrocksdh
Posted: Feb 28, 2022 at 7:56 Quote
We all noticed how there was no new war under Trump.
Interesting how Putin has supposedly hired the African 'Wagner group' to go in and try what the Russians couldn't do.

*and yes, Putin was smart to 1. initially call his invasion a peace keeping op, and 2. Do it under Biden as he did under Obama.
He'll fail though. Total embarrassment to his power.
flag DoubleCrownAddict
Posted: Mar 1, 2022 at 7:34 Quote
jrocksdh wrote:

*and yes, Putin was smart to 1. initially call his invasion a peace keeping op, and 2. Do it under Biden as he did under Obama.
He'll fail though. Total embarrassment to his power.

⬆️Facepalm ⬆️ Not surprising that a misinformed, delusional, and idiotic Trump supporter would contradict himself in the same sentence.

✅So you think Putin was smart to lie about why he was invading a democratic country that is an American ally?

✅Why, if his invasion has completely failed and the whole world is united against him and is going to destroy Russia financially?

✅That was a smart move to you? Are you really this obviously stupid? Clearly yes, because you wrote it❗

✅You also think that it was smart to invade while Biden was in office instead of while Trump was in office?

Why?

Why?

Why?

✅ Trump consistently treated Putin like his best friend he could trust, backed up Putin's lies, and usually defended Putin instead of defending America and NATO's interests.

✅ Meanwhile Biden has confronted Putin, called out his lies, and unused the world against Putin.

⬇️Eek ⬇️ Examples of Trump being a coward to Putin⬇️Blank Stare ⬇️

80 times Trump talked about Putin
By Andrew Kaczynski, Chris Massie, and Nathan McDermott,


Throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump consistently broke from political orthodoxy in his effusive praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

His glowing statements on Putin have become central in stoking the suspicion that he and his campaign were somehow connected to Russian interference in the election.

A CNN KFile review of Trump’s public statements — from the years immediately before his presidential campaign to present — reveal that Trump has contradicted himself over the years about the nature of his relationship with Putin.

Since 2013 — when Trump’s Miss Universe pageant was held in Moscow — Trump has at least nine times claimed to have spoken to, met, or made contact with Putin. But as the 2016 campaign wore on and his statements on Putin began to attract more scrutiny, Trump changed course, denying having ever met the Russian president.

“I never met Putin,” Trump said at a July 2016 news conference. “I don’t know who Putin is. He said one nice thing about me. He said I'm a genius. I said thank you very much to the newspaper and that was the end of it. I never met Putin.”

June 18, 2013
Trump tweets:

Do you think Putin will be going to The Miss Universe Pageant in November in Moscow - if so, will he become my new best friend?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 19, 2013
Sept. 13, 2013
Trump praises Putin for his criticism of the term “American exceptionalism:”

“You think of the term as being fine, but all of sudden you say, what if you’re in Germany or Japan or any one of 100 different countries? You’re not going to like that term,” Trump told CNN. “It’s very insulting and Putin really put it to him (Obama) about that.”

Sept. 16, 2013
Trump notes he’s invited Putin to Miss Universe:

“So we’ve invited President Putin, that’ll be interesting,” Trump said on “Fox and Friends.” “I know he’d like to go.”

Oct. 3, 2013
Trump tells Larry King on Ora TV that Putin has done “a really great job outsmarting our country.”

Oct. 17, 2013
Trump tells David Letterman that he’s done “a lot of business with the Russians” and says they are “smart” and “tough” and that they don’t look “so dumb right now.” He calls Putin a “tough guy” and says that he “met him once.”

Oct. 18, 2013
Trump says on MSNBC that he invited Putin to Miss Universe:

“I know for a fact that he wants very much to come, but we'll have to see. We haven't heard yet, but we have invited him,” Trump said.

November 2013
Trump says he has a relationship with Vladimir Putin:

“I do have a relationship and I can tell you that he’s very interested in what we’re doing here today,” he said on MSNBC of the Miss Universe pageant. “He’s probably very interested in what you and I are saying today, and I’m sure he’s going to be seeing it in some form, but I do have a relationship with him and I think it’s very interesting to see what’s happened.”

Nov. 11, 2013
Trump on "Fox and Friends" says of his trip to Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant:

“I was in Moscow and I was in Russia and they treated me so fantastically. I met so many incredible people.”

Feb. 10, 2014
Trump says Putin contacted him during Miss Universe and was “so nice:”

“When I went to Russia with the Miss Universe pageant, (Putin) contacted me and was so nice. I mean, the Russian people were so fantastic to us,” he said on “Fox and Friends.” “I’ll just say this, they are doing – they’re outsmarting us at many turns, as we all understand. I mean, their leaders are, whether you call them smarter or more cunning or whatever, but they’re outsmarting us. If you look at Syria or other places, they’re outsmarting us.”

March 3, 2014
Amid Russian aggression in Ukraine, Trump tells "Fox and Friends" that Mitt Romney was right about Russia being a “geopolitical foe.”

"Well Mitt Romney was so right, and nobody knew how right he was going to be, and you look at Obama's response and just take a look at what's going on," said Trump. "Syria was propped up by Russia. Syria's now back in their fold 100% and that whole deal is coming to an end because Russia's taken over."

Trump added, “There are a lot of things we could be doing economically to Russia. Russia is not strong economically and we could do a lot of different things to really do numbers on them if we wanted to.”

March 6, 2014
Trump tells a crowd at CPAC that Putin sent him a present during Miss Universe with a note and he “spoke to all of his people.”

March 13, 2014
Trump tells NBC's "Today" that the US should “definitely do sanctions” against Russia for their aggression in Ukraine.

"And we have to show some strength. I mean, Putin has eaten Obama's lunch, therefore our lunch, for a long period of time," he said. "And I just hope that Obama, who's not looking too good, doesn't do something very foolish and very stupid to show his manhood. I just hope that doesn't happen."

March 21, 2014
Trump tweets:

I believe Putin will continue to re-build the Russian Empire. He has zero respect for Obama or the U.S.!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 22, 2014
March 24, 2014
Trump tells "Fox and Friends" Mitt Romney was right that Russia was “our biggest problem.”

"Well, Mitt was right, and he was also right when he mentioned in one of the debates about Russia, and he said, 'Russia's our biggest problem, and Russia is, you know, really something,'" Trump said.

"He said it's a hell of a problem, and everybody laughed at him, including certain media, by the way," continued Trump. "They laughed. It turned out that he's absolutely right. You look at what Russia's doing with Iran, how they controlled the situation, and Syria, and virtually every other place that ... We were thrown out of every place. I'm not saying we should be there. We should rebuild our own schools and our own bridges and highways and everything else. To be scoffed at and thrown around the way we're being thrown around is absolutely unthinkable."

April 12, 2014
Trump tells Fox Business’ Eric Bolling that Putin was nice to him during Miss Universe.

“We just left Moscow,” Trump said. “He could not have been nicer. He was so nice and so everything. But you have to give him credit that what he’s doing for that country in terms of their world prestige is very strong.”

In the same interview, Trump praises Putin’s invasion of Crimea.

“Well, he’s done an amazing job of taking the mantle,” Trump said. “And he’s taken it away from the President, and you look at what he’s doing. And so smart. When you see the riots in a country because they’re hurting the Russians, OK, ‘We’ll go and take it over.’ And he really goes step by step by step, and you have to give him a lot of credit.”

April 12, 2014
Trump says at a New Hampshire event that Putin is “absolutely having a great time.” He says “Russia is like, I mean they’re really hot stuff” and “and now you have people in the Ukraine — who knows, set up or not — but it can’t all be set up, I mean they’re marching in favor of joining Russia.”

April 16, 2014
“Putin is having a great time toying with the President,” Trump says on Fox News’ “Hannity.”

April 28, 2014
Trump tweets:

Putin has shown the world what happens when America has weak leaders. Peace Through Strength!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 28, 2014
May 27, 2014
Speaking at the National Press Club, Trump says he spoke “indirectly and directly” with Putin at Miss Universe.

”I own Miss Universe, I was in Russia, I was in Moscow recently and I spoke, indirectly and directly, with President Putin, who could not have been nicer, and we had a tremendous success.”

June 20, 2014
Trump tells Jeffrey Lord of the American Spectator that Putin treated him “unbelievably well” during Miss Universe and cites Putin to say the term “American exceptionalism” is a “dangerous term.”

“Well, I think it’s a very dangerous term in one way, because I heard Putin saying, ‘Who do they think they are, saying they’re exceptional?’ You can feel you’re exceptional, but when you start throwing it in other countries’ faces or other people’s faces, I actually think it’s a very dangerous term to use,” Trump tells Lord, a CNN contributor. “Well, I heard that Putin was saying to somebody—you know I had the Miss Universe contest over in Moscow recently, six months ago, and Putin, by the way, treated us unbelievably well. And it was at that time that Putin said, ‘Who do they think they are saying they’re exceptional?’ And I understand that. You know, he said, ‘Why are they exceptional? They have killings in the streets. Look at what’s going on in Chicago and different places. They have all of this turmoil, all of the things that are happening in there.’”

July 22, 2014
During an appearance on WTOP radio, Trump says that Putin is not yet finished in Ukraine and that “the United States has to take stand.” Trump says Putin has become “quite the terror.”

“I think I became much richer because I can understand people and read people and Putin is not finished. Putin has got a long way to go,” Trump says.

Nov. 25, 2014
Trump tweets:

Can you imagine what Putin and all of our friends and enemies throughout the world are saying about the U.S. as they watch the Ferguson riot

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 25, 2014
Dec. 16, 2014
Trump tells Fox News host Neil Cavuto that Putin is like a “wounded animal” due to the Obama administration’s actions against Russia.

“We’ve hurt Russia and we’ve done certain things that have really hurt Russia,” he said. “And I don’t know is that a good thing or is that a bad thing? We’ll see what happens.”

He added that Putin is “wounded” and that “wounded people and wounded animals can do lots of strange things and we’d better be a little bit careful.”

March 18, 2015
Trump tells the Daily Mail about his relationship with Putin: “the relationship is great, and it would be great if I had the position I should have.”

Trump also said he received “a gift from Putin – an award and a beautiful letter.” He does not confirm or deny meeting with Putin when asked.

June 16, 2015
Trump makes similar comments to Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly.

“I was over in Moscow two years ago and I will tell you – you can get along with those people and get along with them well. You can make deals with those people. Obama can’t.”

June 18, 2015
Trump answers “yes,” when asked by Fox News' Sean Hannity if he’s had any contact with Vladimir Putin.

“So I was there two years ago. We had a tremendous success with the Miss Universe contest in -- I own Miss Universe, Miss USA, all of that, and it does great,” Trump said. “It's on NBC, but that's OK. But it does fantastically well. And two years ago, we had it in Moscow, and it was a tremendous success. And I got to meet everybody. I got to meet all –”

When asked if he spoke to him during pageant, Trump responds, “I don't want to say.” Trump says Putin hates Obama and when Hannity asked if Putin told him that, Trump again says, “I don’t want to say.”

June 29, 2015
Speaking on Putin, Trump says he “got to know these guys well” during Miss Universe.

“I had the Miss Universe over there two years ago,” Trump tells the City Club of Chicago. “I got to know these guys well. We can get along with them well. We can get along with them well.”

July 8, 2015
Trump tells CNN’s Anderson Cooper that if he becomes president, Putin would turn over Edward Snowden to the US.

“I think I get along with him fine,” Trump said of the Russian president. “I think he would be absolutely fine. He would never keep somebody like Snowden in Russia. He hates Obama. He doesn't respect Obama. Obama doesn't like him either. But he has no respect for Obama. Has a hatred for Obama. And Snowden is living the life. Look if that -- if I'm president, Putin says, hey, boom, you're gone. I guarantee you this.”

July 15, 2015
Trump tells Fox News’ Sean Hannity, “Putin has no respect for President Obama, and Obama doesn't like him much either in all fairness.”

July 26, 2015
Retweets someone saying Putin will respect him:

"@bluestarwindow: @realDonaldTrump @bdean1468 Putin knows that Obama is a danger to the world. Putin will respect President Trump" True!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2015
July 30, 2015
During a trip to his golf resort in Scotland, Trump says he thinks he’d get along well with Putin:

"I think I'd get along very well with Vladimir Putin, I just think so. "People say 'what do you mean?' I think I'd get along well with him.”

Trump also said Putin “hates Obama and Obama hates him, we have unbelievably bad relationships."

Aug. 12, 2015
Trump says on Fox News that he would meet with Putin when the Russian president came to New York for the UN General Assembly.

“Frankly, I’d get along great with him,” he said. "You gotta get along with these people.”

Aug. 14, 2015
Trump says he’d get along well with Putin:

“I think I’d get along well with Putin. I know many of the people. I had a major event there two years ago in Moscow, as you know. It was a tremendous success. An amazing success. I think I’d get along well with Putin.”

Aug. 20, 2015
Trump tells Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo that Putin is “somebody that can be dealt with.”

“I actually think that he is somebody that can be dealt with,” he said. “I think his dislike of President Obama is so intense, that it really has affected the whole relationship. We've driven them into the arms of China, so that now these two are together, which is also a been the great sin. Don't ever let Russia and China get together. We've driven them together. I think he is somebody that I would have a very decent relationship with if I ever win.”

Aug. 23, 2015
Trump says on Fox News that he’d get along with Putin, citing Miss Universe:

“I feel that Putin is somebody I would actually get along with him. I get a lot of heat for that. I had a big event in Moscow about two years ago, I think I would have a good relationship.”

Aug. 29, 2015
Trump says that Putin “hates Obama,” but that he would get along great with the Russian president.

“Putin hates us,” he said. “He hates Obama. He doesn’t hate us. I think he’d like me. I’d get along great with him I think. If you want to know the truth.”

Sept. 23, 2015
Trump says at a town hall event in Columbia, South Carolina, that he will “get along with Putin.”

Sept. 27, 2015
Retweeted someone on Putin’s “brilliance”:

"@Apipwhisperer: @MarkPavelich @gentlemanirish @60Minutes EXCELLENT WATCHING PUTIN'S BRILLIANCE AND TRUMP'S. @CBS I LOVED THE INTERVIEWS."

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 28, 2015
Sept. 28, 2015
Trump tells reporters at Trump Tower that “Putin is a nicer person than I am.”

Sept. 29, 2015
Trump tells Bill O’Reilly that Putin gets an ‘A’ for leadership.

"I will tell you that I think in terms of leadership, he is getting an 'A,' and our president is not doing so well," Trump said. "They did not look good together."

Oct. 2, 2015
Trump tells Sean Hannity that “Putin has no respect for our president whatsoever.”

Oct. 6, 2015
Trump tells conservative radio host Michael Savage he’s met Vladimir Putin.

“Yes,” Trump says. “Yes, a long time ago. We got along great, by the way.”

Oct. 11, 2015
Trump said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that he and Putin had “fantastic ratings on ‘60 Minutes’ together” and again said he thought they’d get along well.

"I think the biggest thing we have is that we were on '60 Minutes' together and we had fantastic ratings. One of your best-rated shows in a long time," Trump said. "So that was good, right? So we were stablemates."

He added, "I think that I would probably get along with him very well. And I don't think you'd be having the kind of problems that you're having right now.”

Oct. 13, 2015
Trump asserted in an interview with the Guardian that Putin was going into Syria to combat ISIS.

“He’s going to want to bomb ISIS because he doesn’t want ISIS going into Russia and so he’s going to want to bomb ISIS. Vladimir Putin is going to want to really go after ISIS, and if he doesn’t it’ll be a big shock to everybody,” Trump said.

Still, in mentioning Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, he noted that Putin is “an Assad person” and “the United States doesn’t like Assad.”

Oct. 14, 2015
Told Bill O’Reilly that Putin was his “stablemate” on 60 Minutes.

“Well, you know, I actually hosted it 10 years ago and Lorne Michaels called me up the other day. He said I'd love to have you host and I agreed to it because it's an honor. I did 60 Minutes last week — that was an honor. My stablemate was Vladimir Putin and we did very well.”

Nov. 10, 2015
Asked a Republican debate what he would do as president in response to Russian aggression, Trump said, “Well, first of all, it's not only Russia. We have problems with North Korea where they actually have nuclear weapons. You know, nobody talks about it, we talk about Iran, and that's one of the worst deals ever made. … So, we have more than just Russia.”

He went on to say, "I got to know (Putin) very well because we were both on ‘60 Minutes,’ we were stablemates, and we did very well that night. But, you know that."

“But, if Putin wants to knock the hell out of ISIS, I’m all for it 100% and I can’t understand how anybody would be against that,” he added.

Nov. 13, 2015
Trump walks back his Putin stablemate comment, saying his 60 Minutes segment was separate from Putin’s.

.@CarlyFiorina I only said I was on @60Minutes four weeks ago with Putin—never said I was in Green Room. Separate pieces—great ratings!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 13, 2015
Dec. 18, 2015
Trump said on Morning Joe that Putin was a better leader than Obama, and dismissed Joe Scarborough’s allegations that the Russian president “kills journalists that don’t agree with him.”

“He’s running his country and at least he’s a leader, unlike what we have in this country,” Trump said.

He added: "I think our country does plenty of killing also, Joe, so you know. There's a lot of stupidity going on in the world right now, a lot of killing going on, a lot of stupidity."

Dec. 20, 2015
In an interview with ABC’s “This Week,” Trump defends against allegations Putin has ordered the killings of journalists and dissidents.

“As far as the reporters are concerned — as far as the reporters are concerned, obviously I don't want that to happen. I think it's terrible — horrible. But, in all fairness to Putin, you're saying he killed people. I haven't' seen that. I don't know that he has. Have you been able to prove that? Do you know the names of the reporters that he's killed? Because I've been — you know, you've been hearing this, but I haven't seen the name. Now, I think it would be despicable if that took place, but I haven't' seen any evidence that he killed anybody in terms of reporters.”

Dec. 21, 2015
Trump tells Iowa radio host Simon Conway, “I’ve always had a good instinct about Putin. I just feel that that’s a guy—and I can analyze people and you’re not always right, and it could be that I won’t like him. But I’ve always had a good feeling about him from the standpoint.”

Dec. 30, 2015
Trump says at an event in South Carolina that Putin says he’s “brilliant.” And attacks his opponents, saying, “they want me to refute his statement.”

Jan. 26, 2016
In an interview with Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo, Trump discusses the 2006 murder of Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian security agent, and the 2016 findings of a British inquiry that Putin “probably approved” his poisoning.

"Have they found him guilty?” Trump said. “I don't think they've found him guilty.”

“If he did it, fine. But I don’t know that he did it. You know, people are saying they think it was him, it might have been him, it could have been him. But Maria, in all fairness to Putin—I don’t know. You know, and I’m not saying this because he says, ‘Trump is brilliant and leading everybody’ —the fact is that, you know, he hasn’t been convicted of anything.”

Feb. 15, 2016
Trump says at a news conference he’d be a better negotiator with Putin than his rivals.

“You want to make a good deal for the country, you want to deal with Russia – and there’s nothing wrong with not fighting everybody, having Russia where we have a good relationship as opposed to all the stupidity that’s taken place.”

Feb. 17, 2016
Trump says at a rally that he has no relationship with Putin.

"I have no relationship with him other than he called me a genius,” Trump said. “He said, ‘Donald Trump is a genius and he is going to be the leader of the party and he's going to be the leader of the world or something.’”

Feb. 26, 2016
Trump says at a press conference that he can’t imagine Marco Rubio meeting with Putin.

“I joked recently about, ‘can you imagine Putin sitting there waiting for a meeting and Rubio walks in and he's totally drenched,” Trump said. “I don't know what it is, but I've never seen a human being sweat like this man sweats.”

Feb. 28, 2016
Trump says at campaign rally in Alabama he’d be a better negotiator with Putin than his rivals.

He says Putin has been “very nice” to him.

March 12, 2016
Trump says at a rally that the media falsely claims he admires Putin:

“Putin said good things about me. He said, ‘he’s a leader and there’s no question about it, he’s a genius.’ So they all said, the media, they said -- you saw it on the debate -- they said, ‘you admire President Putin.’ I said, I don’t admire him. I said he was a strong leader, which he is. I mean, he might be bad, he might be good. But he’s a strong leader.”

March 21, 2016
Speaking at the Old Post Office, Trump says, “Putin says very nice things about me. I think that's very nice and it has no effect on me other than I think it's very nice.”

April 26, 2016
Trump says during a victory speech “We're going to have a great relationship with Putin and Russia.”

April 28, 2016
Trump says Putin has been “very nice” to him:

"I'm saying that I'd possibly have a good relationship. He's been very nice to me," Trump told Bill O’Reilly. "If we can make a great deal for our country and get along with Russia that would be a tremendous thing. I would love to try it."

May 2, 2016
Trump tells Indiana radio host Charly Butcher that the US should call Putin to ask him to stop Russian planes from barrel-rolling over US aircraft, but that if they didn’t stop, “at a certain point...you gotta shoot.”

May 5, 2016
Asked if he’s ever spoken to Vladimir Putin, Trump gives a “no comment” to Fox News’ Bret Baier.

“Yeah, I have no comment on that,” he said. “No comment.”

When Baier pressed him, “Yeah, but I don’t want to comment because, let’s assume I did. Perhaps it was personal. You know, I don’t want to hurt his confidence. But I know Russia well. I had a major event in Russia two or three years ago – Miss Universe contest – which is a big, incredible event, and incredible success. I got to meet a lot of people. And you know what? They want to be friendly with the United States. Wouldn’t it be nice if we actually got with somebody?”

May 27, 2016
Trump calls Putin “a strong leader” at a rally.

June 3, 2016
At a rally in California, Trump mocked those who wanted him to “disavow” Putin’s praise of him.

“Then Putin said, ’Donald Trump is a genius, he’s going to be the next great leader of the United States.’ No, no, think of it. They wanted me to disavow what he said. How dare you call me a genius. How dare you call me a genius, Vladimir. Wouldn’t it be nice if we actually got along with Russia? Wouldn’t that be good?"

July 25, 2016
Trump tweets:

The new joke in town is that Russia leaked the disastrous DNC e-mails, which should never have been written (stupid), because Putin likes me

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 25, 2016
July 27, 2016
Trump tells a local Miami CBS affiliate that he has nothing to do with Russia and has never met Putin, saying, “But I have nothing to do with Russia, nothing to do, I never met Putin, I have nothing to do with Russia whatsoever.”

July 27, 2016
Trump says at a news conference that he had never met Putin and didn’t know who he was:

“I never met Putin,” Trump said. “I don’t know who Putin is. He said one nice thing about me. He said I'm a genius. I said thank you very much to the newspaper and that was the end of it. I never met Putin.”

He also said, "I would treat Vladimir Putin firmly, but there's nothing I can think of that I'd rather do than have Russia friendly, as opposed to the way they are right now, so that we can go and knock out ISIS with other people.”

In the same news conference, Trump called on Russia to find Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails as secretary of state.

July 27, 2016
Talking about Putin at a campaign rally in Scranton, Trump says, “wouldn't it be a great thing if we could get along with Russia.”

July 31, 2016
Trump tells ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that if he were to be elected president, Putin is “not going into Ukraine.”

“He's not going into Ukraine, OK, just so you understand,” Trump said. “He's not going to go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down. You can put it down. You can take it anywhere you want.”

Asked about Putin’s previous invasion of Crimea, Trump said, "OK -- well, he's there in a certain way. But I'm not there. You have Obama there. And frankly, that whole part of the world is a mess under Obama with all the strength that you're talking about and all of the power of NATO and all of this. In the meantime, he's going away. He takes Crimea."

Aug. 5, 2016
Trump again says at a campaign rally in Green Bay that he doesn’t know Putin and attacks Hillary Clinton for saying he wants to befriend him:

“And I'm saying to myself what's wrong with that? That's good,” Trump said.

Sept. 7, 2016
Trump says in a town hall with NBC’s Matt Lauer that he considers Putin a stronger leader than Barack Obama.

“If he says great things about me, I'm going to say great things about him. I've already said, he is really very much of a leader. I mean, you can say, 'Oh, isn't that a terrible thing' -- the man has very strong control over a country,” Trump said. “Now, it's a very different system, and I don't happen to like the system. But certainly, in that system, he's been a leader, far more than our president has been a leader.”

Oct. 5, 2016
Trump said of Putin at a rally, “I don’t love, I don’t hate.”

“I don’t love, I don’t hate,” he said in Nevada. “We’ll see how it works. We’ll see. Maybe we’ll have a good relationship. Maybe we’ll have a horrible relationship. Maybe we’ll have a relationship right in the middle.”

Oct. 9, 2016
Trump said at presidential debate: “I don’t know Putin. I think it would be great if we got along with Russia because we could fight ISIS together, as an example. But I don’t know Putin.”

Oct. 17, 2016
Trump tells radio host Michael Savage that he might meet with Putin prior to the start of his administration.

"I think I could see myself meeting with Putin and meeting with Russia prior to the start of the administration,” he said. “I think it would be wonderful.”

In the interview, he also said that Clinton shouldn’t talk “so tough” on Russia, saying "She talks tough with Russia. She shouldn't be talking so tough. Frankly, if we got along with Russia and knocked out ISIS, that would be a good thing, not a bad thing."

Oct. 19, 2016
At the third presidential debate, Trump denied Clinton’s charge he was Putin’s “puppet”, saying “No puppet. You’re the puppet.”

He further denied having met Putin and said that Putin had “outsmarted” Clinton and Obama.

Oct. 27, 2016
Trump says at a rally in Ohio that it was not smart of Clinton to speak “very badly of Putin.”

Dec. 23, 2016
Trump tweets out Putin’s criticism of Hillary Clinton and the Democrats:

Vladimir Putin said today about Hillary and Dems: "In my opinion, it is humiliating. One must be able to lose with dignity." So true!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 24, 2016
Jan. 11, 2017
Trump says he believes Russia was responsible for the hacking the Democratic National committee in 2016:

"I think it was Russia," Trump said, adding that Putin "should not be doing it.”

“He won't be doing it. Russia will have much greater respect for our country when I am leading it than when other people have led it,” Trump said.

Trump also said he believes a good relationship with Putin would be an asset.

"If Putin likes Donald Trump, I consider that an asset, not a liability, because we have a horrible relationship with Russia. Russia can help us fight ISIS, which, by the way, is, number one, tricky. I mean if you look, this administration created ISIS by leaving at the wrong time. The void was created, ISIS was formed."

Feb. 6, 2017
Trump says he respects Putin during a Super Bowl interview with Bill O’Reilly. Trump defends Putin when O’Reilly calls him a killer.

“There are a lot of killers,” Trump says. “Do you think our country is so innocent? Do you think our country is so innocent?

Feb. 16, 2017
Trump says at a news conference that he has no deals in Russia:

“And I can tell you, speaking for myself, I own nothing in Russia. I have no loans in Russia. I don't have any deals in Russia. President Putin called me up very nicely to congratulate me on the win of the election,” Trump said.

Trump adds, “I would love to be able to get along with Russia. Now, you've had a lot of presidents that haven't taken that tack. Look where we are now. Look where we are now. So, if I can - now, I love to negotiate things, I do it really well, and all that stuff. But - but it's possible I won't be able to get along with Putin.”
flag krumpdancer101
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Posted: Mar 1, 2022 at 7:43 Quote
Five year old quotes is what’s causing what’s happening now???

You forgot one day the date that Russia invaded anything under Trump.
flag jrocksdh
Posted: Mar 1, 2022 at 8:14 Quote
And Biden is still importing oil from Russia today.
And meeting with Russia to discuss Iranian oil/nukes.
Biden has put more severe sanctions on US oil than Russia/Iran/China.
flag Matt115lamb
Posted: Mar 1, 2022 at 11:44 Quote
I thought it was run by Reptilians Wink
flag road-psyclist
Posted: Mar 1, 2022 at 11:45 Quote
lol lol lol

I don't believe that theory Matt, but some nuts do believe it.
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