Ekaterina Girnyk10:06, 06.10.24
At Putin’s instigation, Trump began promoting a conspiracy theory about Ukraine’s interference in the US elections.
Donald Trump asked Vladimir Putin for advice on Ukraine in 2017, and Putin managed to sway Trump’s opinion to his side.
As The New York Times reports , citing its sources, on January 28, 2017, during the first telephone conversation with Putin during his presidency, Trump was the first to raise the issue of Ukraine, asking Putin to express his opinion:
“The Russian president took advantage of this. He launched into a long monologue about corruption in Ukraine. Trump was measured in his response, disagreeing with Putin and not defending Ukraine, but he acknowledged that Russia’s dispute with Ukraine is an obstacle to his goal of improving relations with Moscow.”
That same day, German Chancellor Angela Merkel tried to convey a different view of Ukraine to Trump, talking about how important it was for support for Ukraine to continue and how Russian aggression in Ukraine needed to be contained.
However, according to a source present at the conversation, Trump ignored her opinion and cut the conversation short. “Thank you very much, and goodbye,” Trump said.
At the instigation of Putin, who claimed that Ukraine tried to help Hillary Clinton in the election, Trump began to promote a conspiracy theory about Ukraine’s interference in the US elections. And during a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in May 2017, Trump discussed the connection between Ukraine and Clinton, and peppered Lavrov with questions about ties between Ukrainian officials and US Democrats, the NYT writes.
At the same time, as Trump’s dissatisfaction with Ukraine grew, some of his advisers tried to convince him that it was Russia, not Ukraine, that interfered in the 2016 elections, the NYT writes, but Trump apparently did not listen to them.
During a meeting with Putin in Hamburg in July 2017, Trump, who had said in a speech the day before that Russia should “cease its destabilizing activities in Ukraine,” again succumbed to the Russian president’s manipulations.
It is noted that Putin made arguments in favor of his obligation to protect Russian-speaking residents in eastern Ukraine from “ethnic cleansing.” In doing so, he drew an analogy with President Theodore Roosevelt in 1904 and American interference in the internal affairs of Latin American countries.
As Fiona Hill, a senior official on Trump’s National Security Council, noted, Putin likely mentioned Roosevelt at the meeting “because he knew Mr. Trump was fixated on the former ‘silovik’ president.”
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While the orange felon went slithering to the evil rat for advice, he ignored what our own intelligence community was trying to tell him. Trump will never make America great again. Instead, he will make the russian terrorist federation great again, along with china, iran, and north korea.
He is well-known for publicly believing the toxic information provided by his favourite tiny dictator to that provided by his own intelligence services.
Remember: DT Jr boasted about the disproportionately large amounts of putinaZi cash invested in the family businesses as if it was something to be admired.
kremlin assets; Ivan Muskovy, RFK “Brainworm” Jr, JD VanZkov, Gabbard, DT Jr etc are all expecting cabinet posts in a future Trump regime.
Too bad we have so many deadbeats in the US who want this criminal sack of shite as their president.
I’m still dumbfounded about that but then I take a look at the alternatives. Anyone who was a moderate could have wrapped up the election months ago sadly.
Indeed, through bad leadership, our country has been brought on a rocky trail.