RUSSIA/UKRAINE: “Trump also claimed that if he was still president, Russian President Vladimir Putin would not have invaded Ukraine…
‘I thought he might do it,’ Trump said. ‘I talked to him, I said, If you do it, there’s going to be hell to pay. It’s going to be a catastrophe, don’t do it.’…
The former president, however, declined to say whether he would offer Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula to Russian in order to end the war.
‘I don’t talk about those deals because it really would impede a negotiation,’ Trump said.”
-Miles J. Herszenhorn, “Five takeaways from Donald Trump’s Fox News interview on classified docs, China, Ukraine and more,” usatoday.com, June 21, 2023