MADRID 21 Oct. () –
Former US President Donald Trump would have threatened the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, with “attacking the center of Moscow” if he invaded Ukraine, as revealed by the newspaper ‘The Wall Street Journal’. There is no concrete information on when these statements were made.
Trump would have personally explained to the newspaper’s management how he told Putin: “Vladimir, if you go after Ukraine I’m going to hit you so hard you won’t even believe it. I’m going to hit you right in the middle of fucking Moscow.”
The former president even threatened to blow up the domes of Moscow’s Red Square. “I said, ‘We’re friends. I don’t want to, but I have no choice.’ He said, ‘No way.’ And I said, ‘Yes.’ I said, ‘I’m going to hit you so hard I’m going to blow those fucking domes off of you. of your head,” he said.
The statements were made during a 90-minute meeting held at the New York offices of the ‘Journal’ in which he also spoke about other issues of foreign policy, immigration and his criticism of the newspaper.
The editor of ‘The Washington Post’, Bob Woodward, published part of this conversation between Putin and Trump in his book ‘War’, citing sources close to the former president. Sources close to Trump have confirmed at least seven conversations with Putin since Trump left the White House in 2021.
Trump has openly criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whom he has described as a “businessman” who “should never have allowed the war to start” and maintains that if he had remained in the White House, the invasion would never have happened.
In response to this information, Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov has urged Trump, without citing him, to maintain a certain “information hygiene”, especially during the election campaign.
“In the United States, many heated statements are being made, out of emotion,” he indicated, according to Russian public television RBC. Peskov has also stressed that the Kremlin does not publish the content of private conversations.
“We continue to prefer a very responsible position and not make public the content of conversations at the highest levels. Unfortunately, there are several world leaders who do not practice this policy and do not respect this information hygiene. Well, it remains on their conscience,” he said. argued.
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