Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump.
Mikhail Metzel | Evelyn Hawkstan | By Reuters
president Donald Trump Tell campaign donors last year if the Russian president Vladimir Putin According to a new report, the invasion of Ukraine.
Trump claimed at the same donor meeting that he threatened the Chinese president Xi Jinping According to audio, stop China from invading Taiwan Obtained through CNN and detailed in the upcoming book,”2024: How Trump evacuated the White House, the Democrats lost the United States. ”
According to audio at the meeting at the Pierre Hotel in New York on May 14, 2024, Trump told donors at the conference: “I said, ‘I said, ‘If you enter Ukraine, I will bomb SH-Moscow.”
Trump recalled: “‘I tell you I have no choice.”
“And then (Putin) left, ‘I don’t believe you.’ But he believed me 10%.
Trump said that Ginney largely refuted Trump’s threat to China.
“He thought I was crazy,” Trump said, adding: “We’ve never had any problems.”
NBC News has obtained audio from new book authors Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf.
Trump served as the first president from January 2017 to January 2021 and did not say it on the audio when he was suspected of threats.
Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, when Joe Biden was president.
Asked about CNN’s report, a White House spokesman told CNBC on Wednesday: “When President Trump said time and time again, Russia never dared to invade Ukraine while in office. This only happened when Biden took office.”
“As a result of the president’s leadership, the United States has once again become the leader of the free world, peace has been restored through strength,” the spokeswoman said. “President Trump won on the first agenda of the United States and he is working to carry out the tasks entrusted to him by the American people.”
CNN noted that the audio highlights Trump’s often speaks more frankly on the campaign trail when he tries to attract donors.
Since Trump returned to the White House, he has stepped up his words to criticize Putin.
Trump said Tuesday he was “unhappy” by the Russian leader’s war against Ukraine.
“He killed a lot of people… His soldiers and their soldiers, mainly up to 7,000 people a week,” Trump said of Putin at a cabinet meeting.
