{"id":1331290,"date":"2022-02-23T08:38:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T13:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1331290"},"modified":"2022-02-23T08:39:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T13:39:09","slug":"donald-trump-vladimir-putin-always-wanted-ukraine-but-i-said-you-cant-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-always-wanted-ukraine-but-i-said-you-cant-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump: Vladimir Putin &#039;Always Wanted Ukraine&#039; but I Said &#039;You Can&#039;t Do It&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdonald-trump-vladimir-putin-always-wanted-ukraine-but-i-said-you-cant-do-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1331290&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2018\/07\/trump-putin.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday he knew that Russian President Vladimir Putin always wanted to take over Ukraine, but that as president he refused to let it happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew that he always wanted Ukraine,\u201d Trump said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clayandbuck.com\/president-trump-with-cb-from-mar-a-lago\/\">interview<\/a> with radio hosts Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. \u201cI used to talk to him about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The former president recalled that he understood Putin, but said he would not allow him to invade his neighboring country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said, \u2018You can\u2019t do it. You\u2019re not gonna do it,&#8217;\u201d Trump said. \u201cBut I could see that he wanted it. I used to ask him. We used to talk about it at length.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump flattered Putin, recalling he \u201cgot along with him great.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHe liked me. I liked him. I mean, you know, he\u2019s a tough cookie, got a lot of the great charm and a lot of pride,\u201d he said. \u201cBut the way he \u2014 and he loves his country, you know? He loves his country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump spoke about Putin after the Russian president recognized two regions in Ukraine as \u201cindependent,\u201d sending more Russian troops in the region to act as \u201cpeacekeepers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said, \u2018How smart is that?&#8217;\u201d Trump said, recalling when he saw the news about Putin\u2019s actions. \u201cAnd he\u2019s gonna go in and be a peacekeeper. That\u2019s the strongest peace force \u2026 we could use that on our southern border. That\u2019s the strongest peace force I\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump claimed Putin would not have acted in Ukraine if he was still the president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHad I been in office, not even thinkable. This would never have happened,\u201d he said, but added, \u201cYou gotta say that\u2019s pretty savvy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump ridiculed President Joe Biden for failing to react immediately to Putin\u2019s move in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know what the response was from Biden? There was no response,\u201d he said. \u201cThey didn\u2019t have one for that. No, it\u2019s very sad. Very sad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later Tuesday, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/22\/joe-biden-sanctions-russia-warning-america-of-the-economic-costs-of-defending-freedom-in-ukraine\/\">announced<\/a> a \u201cfirst tranche\u201d of economic sanctions to punish Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho in the Lord\u2019s name does Putin think gives him the right to declare new so-called countries on territory that belonged to his neighbors?\u201d Biden asked during his speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday he knew that Russian President Vladimir Putin always wanted to take over Ukraine, but that as president he refused to let it happen. \u201cI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1331290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}