Trump assures that the invasion of Ukraine would not have happened in his term and that he spoke with Putin “very often”

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The former president has criticized Joe Biden, assuring that he is “neither physically nor mentally” ready for another electoral race

12 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –

In his first interview after being charged with fraud, former President Donald Trump has reiterated his innocence in a conversation in which he has also discussed foreign policy, assuring that Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to him about Ukraine “very often”. .

He has assured that after seeing how the United States Army left Afghanistan, Putin decided to start his offensive: “Before that (the exit from Afghanistan), Putin would never have entered Ukraine. I talked to him very often about it. But when he saw these idiots, these stupid people…”.

“I could see that he loved (Ukraine), that he considers it part of his country, part of Russia, but I told him ‘not while I’m president,'” he added on Fox News. He has also compared the situation with the recent tensions with China around Taiwan: “I told China ‘you are not going to enter Taiwan, if you do, I am going to do something very dirty’. And I said the same to Putin, ‘ You’re not going to enter the Ukraine.’ And no one talked about entering Taiwan or entering the Ukraine until I was no longer there.”

“And now, what a disaster we have in the world,” Trump said, explaining that the greatest danger to the world, before global warming, is nuclear weapons.

“Ukraine is being devastated. But let’s say it wasn’t like that, let’s say they were doing better than expected. If he (Putin) decided to use his second force of destruction, which is nuclear, it would be the end,” he continued.

HIS IMPUTATION, A LIE

He has also insisted that his accusation has political reasons, since “there is no crime”, and he has even described the day he went to hear the charges against him as “a very sad but also incredible day”.

“When I was there it was incredible, people were crying, the people who work there, professionals who have no problem with taking the fingerprints of murderers, they were there crying and asking for forgiveness, saying ‘2024, sir’, I have never seen anything similar before,” said the former president.

He has also affirmed that the current president, Joe Biden, is not able “neither physically nor mentally” to participate in the next presidential electoral race: “It is not his age, there is something that is not right. I saw his response today on television about whether he’s going to show up again, you can’t have an easier question. And he gave a long answer, talking about eggs, that if this, if that… Look, I don’t think I can do it, I don’t see it.

Asked if he himself would withdraw from the electoral race if he is finally convicted in the case for which he is being investigated, he has assured that “no”. “He would never withdraw from the electoral race, it is not my thing”, he has reiterated himself.