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Days before he was due to stand trial in New York, former President Trump appeared to be doing his best to take his mind off the indictment.
Trump was seen giving a thumbs up to supporters lining the streets outside his home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, on Saturday.
Luster, moving to Truth Social, Trump focused on the issue of the Ukraine war suggesting that Russia likely wouldn’t have invaded had he been in the White House.
In fact, I got along well with Putin – there would be no war between Russia and Ukraine now if I were president. All of these lives could have been saved, and all of these people would be living healthy now! ”
Trump has hinted at such ideas in the past — most recently at last month’s CPAC conference at which he bragged that no new war had started in his four years in office.
“I was also the only president in which Russia did not take over a country during my tenure,” he bragged. “Because I got along very well with Vladimir Putin. I said: ‘Vladimir, don’t do that, you know you and I are friends, don’t seize any country, because, you know, Moscow will be hit hard.’”
Former President Donald Trump gave the thumbs up to his supporters outside his Mar-a-Lago, Florida home just days before he was charged in New York.
Trump tried to divert attention by focusing on the issue of the Ukraine war suggesting that Russia would likely not have been invaded if he had been in the White House at the time.
Supporters of former President Donald Trump gather outside the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida
Supporters of former US President Donald Trump wave as his motorcade leaves the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach
During his speech, Trump said he would even be able to prevent World War III.
He promised: “Before I get to the Oval Office, I will sort out the disastrous war between Russia and Ukraine, and it will be settled quickly.”
Last month, the topic of Russia came up again during a phone interview on Fox News where he said something similar.
Trump insisted the invasion of Ukraine would never have happened if he had been in office: ‘My reaction is it’s very sad because it never would have happened if we had a Trump administration.
There was no chance of this happening.
I know him very well, and this was never something that was going to happen. Next, let’s see what happens, but just watch.
Talk host Sean Hannity asked Trump if he viewed people like Putin as enemies who needed to be warmed to, to which the former president replied, “I got along with those people well.
This does not mean that they are good people.
Trump is expected to surrender to authorities in New York on Tuesday to face charges related to his massive payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.
A motorcade carrying former President Trump passes through his supporters in West Palm Beach on Saturday
Earlier this year, former President Trump released a video about the war in Ukraine, claiming he could negotiate an end to the conflict within 24 hours.
“A lot of things are changing,” Trump added in his interview last month with Sean Hannity. `This does not seem to be the same Putin as I have been dealing with, but I tell you, he would not have changed if I had been dealing with him’ (Photo shaking hands with Putin in 2019)
It does not mean anything other than the fact that I understood them and they probably understood me. Maybe they understood me better, that’s good, because they knew there would be a big penalty.
Trump added that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was “truly a crime against humanity” and “should end soon”.
“Putin’s problem is that he has a very big ego,” he said. “If he finished now, it would seem like a huge loss to him, even if he took up a little extra space.”
Previously, Trump called the Russian president’s independent recognition of two separate Ukrainian republics “genius” and “clever”.
Trump has since confirmed that the comments he made about Putin were before the invasion of Ukraine. (Here, he’s pictured with Putin in 2017 at the APEC Summit)
Since then, Trump has stressed that the remarks were made before the invasion of Ukraine.
“A lot of things are changing,” Trump said. It didn’t seem like the same Putin I was dealing with, but I tell you it wouldn’t have changed if I had been dealing with it.
Trump added, “They (the Russians) got it and they got me.”
No one has been so cruel to Russia as I have been. Putin will tell you.
The 75-year-old former president said Putin is in “a lot of trouble right now” and is “in a bad corner,” and that he thinks the Russian president wishes he hadn’t started this mess.
“This is turning into a disaster,” Trump said.