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March 5, 2022 - Triggered - Donald Trump Jr
04:32
Trump: The Sad Truth About Biden
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And when you have a weak president who is not respected by other nations, you have a very chaotic world.
And the world hasn't been this chaotic since World War II. I think we can say that.
We can say that very strongly.
I have no doubt that President Putin made his decision to ruthlessly attack Ukraine only after watching the pathetic withdrawal from Afghanistan, where the military was taken out first, our soldiers were killed, and American hostages plus $85 billion worth of the finest equipment anywhere in the world were left behind.
Yesterday, reporters asked me if I thought President Putin was smart.
I said, of course he's smart, to which I was greeted with, oh, that's such a terrible thing to say.
I'd like to tell the truth, yes, he's smart.
The NATO nations, and indeed the world, as he looks over what's happening strategically with no repercussions or threats whatsoever, they're not so smart.
They're looking the opposite of smart.
If you take over Ukraine, We're going to sanction you, they say.
Sanction? Well, that's a pretty weak statement.
Putin is saying, oh, they're going to sanction me.
They've sanctioned me for the last 25 years.
You mean I can take over a whole country?
Are they going to sanction me? You mean they're not going to blow us to pieces, at least psychologically?
The problem is not that Putin is smart, which of course he's smart, but the real problem is that our leaders are dumb.
Dumb. So dumb.
And they so far allowed him to get away with this travesty and assault on humanity.
That's what it is. This is an assault on humanity.
So sad. Putin is playing Biden like a drum, and it's not a pretty thing, as somebody that loves our country, to watch.
Just not a pretty thing to watch.
You know, I was with Putin a lot.
I spent a lot of time with him.
I got along with him. I got along with President Xi.
I got along with Kim Jong-un.
Kim Jong-un has massive nuclear power.
It's a good thing to get along with people, not a bad thing.
You can be very tough and get along.
You know, I'm the one that ended his pipeline.
He said, you're killing me with the pipeline.
Nobody else ended his pipeline.
Biden came in. He approved it.
But I did a lot of things that were very tough on Russia.
Nobody, no president was ever as tough on Russia as I was.
And I'd come in, the fake news would say, Trump loves Russia.
He loves Russia. Then we had the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, which is now with Durham and Mueller and all the rest, just a total hoax.
It was a made-up fictional story.
But with respect to what's going on now, it would have been so easy for me to stop this travesty from happening.
He understood me, and he understood that I didn't play games.
This would not have happened. Someday I'll tell you exactly what we talked about.
But we talked about it.
And he did have an affinity.
There's no question about it for Ukraine.
I said, never let it happen.
You better not let it happen.
This is the only attack in history where the further he goes and the bigger it gets and the worse it gets and the more death that's caused, the more money he makes because oil prices keep climbing higher and higher and higher.
There's never been anything like that where a warring nation The more he makes it difficult to get oil, the more expensive it gets, and the more money he makes.
And all those tanks roaming around are very expensive, but they're peanuts compared to the kind of money that he's making because of the tremendous increase in oil.
You know, when I left, and during my term, oil was at $36 a barrel.
Think of it, $36.
Now it hit $100, and they think it's going to $150.
So the Middle East And Saudi Arabia, a lot of countries.
But Russia, right now in particular, is making more money than they ever dreamt possible.
The cost of the war is very, very small compared to the kind of money they're taking in.
There's never been a situation like that.
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