Trump said Putin's 'appalling' attack was an 'atrocity,' and it would have never happened if the 2020 election was 'not rigged.' Trump this week praised Putin as 'genius.'
Even while Trump slammed Democratic leadership, he took time to acknowledge the war in Ukraine. The former president said Putin's"appalling" attack was an"atrocity," and that it would have never happened if the 2020 election was"not rigged.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference at The Rosen Shingle Creek on February 26, 2022 in Orlando, Florida. CPAC, which began in 1974, is an annual political conference attended by conservative activists and elected officials.Trump trumpeted his own one-term presidency, saying Russia had attacked no other countries during his administration.
Trump has been rather cozy with Putin over the course of the last decade, including the 45th president's administration. Trump said in 2018 that"I'll also see Putin over a period of time. It would be a fantastic thing if we got along with Putin and if we got along with Russia. And that could happen, and it may not happen, it may be just the opposite."Xi Jinping"I like President Xi a lot. I consider him a friend, and – but I like him a lot.
"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 [Barack Obama] has been a leader."
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