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The statements were made by the US president during a fundraiser in 2024, according to an unreleased audio...
Five months ago, US President Donald Trump caused a stir by claiming that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted peace in Ukraine. But in recent days, Trump has taken a completely different tone toward Russia and the war in Ukraine, marking a shift in his political rhetoric.
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During a meeting with his cabinet, President Trump openly criticized Putin, the man he had avoided publicly attacking for years.
"We hear a lot of nonsense from Putin, if you ask me," Trump said, adding that the Russian leader "is always very nice, but ultimately turns out to be useless."
This statement is even more significant given the ambivalent relationship between Trump and Putin and repeated accusations of tolerance towards the Kremlin.
In addition to his scathing criticism, Trump recently lifted a suspension on defensive weapons shipments to Ukraine, despite Washington's claim that the pause was imposed by other members of his administration.
Threat to Putin: "If you continue the war, I will bomb Moscow."
The harsher tone of recent hours towards Putin echoes that of Trump himself a few months before he entered the White House.
The then-Republican candidate reportedly tried to convince the Russian president not to attack Ukraine by threatening to "bomb Moscow to death" in retaliation. That's what the US president himself said during a fundraiser with funders of his 2024 election campaign, according to previously unreleased audio provided by CNN.
"I told Putin: If you invade Ukraine, I will bomb Moscow to the ground": Exclusive Trump audio from 2024, released by CNN. pic.twitter.com/QPMZ2QV5gW
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"I told Putin: 'If you go into Ukraine, I will bomb Moscow. I have no other choice,'" Trump said, according to the audio.
"He said, 'I don't believe you.' But he believed me 10 percent," can be heard in the previously unpublished conversation.
Trump told his wealthiest donors that he had issued a similar warning to Chinese President Xi Jinping about a possible invasion of Taiwan.
"I told him we were going to bomb Beijing. Xi thought I was crazy," he added, stressing that "we never had any problems."
Immediately after the audio was released, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied that Putin had held telephone conversations with Trump before the latter's re-election as US president.
"If I had been president earlier, the war in Ukraine would not have broken out"
The remarks, made during Trump's re-election campaign, are among audio recordings recorded at 2024 fundraisers in New York and Florida that were later obtained by journalists Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf, who detailed some of the exchanges in their new book, "2024." The audio has never been aired before. The Trump campaign declined to comment on the content of the recordings.
The audio reveals a more aggressive and casual side of Trump, willing to showcase a muscular foreign policy behind closed doors, aimed at winning the support of wealthier donors. In addition to the snippets about Putin and Xi, the then-presidential candidate also spoke about expelling protesting students and declared that "welfare advocates will always vote Democrat."
According to Trump, if he had been in the White House in 2022, neither the war in Ukraine nor the conflict in the Middle East would have ever erupted. / Adapted Pamphlet from Today /
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