Previous guy said that "nothing happened during our administration." Because he said even when prompted, that he got along with authoritarian dictators: “I got along with these people. I got along with them well.”
“You came under some fire when you said that Vladimir Putin is very smart,” Hannity said during an interview with Trump. “I think I know you a little bit better than most people in the media, and I think you also recognize he’s evil, do you not?”
Trump declined to say and instead tried to argue about the semantics of his praise for the dictator.
“Well, I was referring to the fact that he said this is an independent nation, talking about Ukraine, and I said that ... this was before there was any attack. He’s calling it an independent nation,” Trump said, adding that “this doesn’t seem to be the same Putin that I was dealing with.”
“But I will tell you, he wouldn’t have changed if I were dealing with him. He wouldn’t have changed,” he added.
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John Bolton, who served as the president's national security advisor, said during an interview with SiriusXM's Julie Mason Wednesday that Putin didn't invade Ukraine while Trump was in office because of the "president's hostility with NATO." Ukraine's government has expressed interest in joining NATO, a defense pact that Biden has been more supportive of.
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Worth noting: Hannity put it to Trump that he was criticized last month for praising Putin's recognition of two breakaway "republics" in eastern Ukraine as independent as "genius" and "smart," adding: "I think you also recognize he's evil, do you not?"
- "Well, I was referring to the fact that he said this is an independent nation, talking about Ukraine," responded Trump, without addressing Hannity's question on whether Putin is evil.
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