During a rally in South Carolina, the former president insisted that Russia would not have invaded Ukraine had Donald Trump been in the White House.
Trump said that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not stop his military attack on Ukraine.
“This could lead to World War III. I see what’s going on, because if you think Putin is going to stop, it’s going to get worse. He’s not going to accept it, and we have no one to talk to,” Trump told the audience in Florence, South Carolina on Saturday night, you had someone. What to talk to me.
“No one has been tougher than me toward Russia,” he continued, adding, “I was the one who stopped the pipelines,” Back to Nord Stream 2 . gas pipeline From Russia to Western Europe.
The former president came under heavy criticism last month after him seemed to praise Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, calling the aggressive move “genius”, “smart” and “wise”.
“Russia would not have included an inch of Ukraine if I were in the White House,” he said.
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“I am the only president of the twenty-first century in which Russia has not invaded any other country nor anyone else,” he said. “We had peace through strength because the world was quiet because America was strong.”
Trump declared, “The Fake News said my character would get us into a war… but in fact it was my character that kept us out of the war.”
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