UKRAINE/RUSSIA: “Months after claiming he could end Russia’s war on Ukraine in 24 hours, former president Donald Trump has finally offered an explanation for why he thinks it’d be so simple for him… ‘I know Zelensky very well, I know Putin very well—even better—and I had a very good relationship with both of them,’ he […]
Category: Vladimir Putin
7/4/2023
JOE BIDEN/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “When Biden said that Putin is ‘losing the war in Iraq,’ twice, everybody knew, through confirmation, that we have a confirmed, and very dangerous, Idiot in the White House. The USA cannot have this go on!” -Donald Trump, Truth Social, July 4, 2023 […]
5/10/2023
UKRAINE/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “If I were president, this would have never happened. And even the Democrats admit that. Putin knew it would have never happened and his pipeline would have never happened… And all those dead people, both Russian and Ukrainian, it wouldn’t – they wouldn’t be dead today. And all those cities that are blown […]
4/1/2023
RUSSIA/UKRAINE/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “Actually, I got along very well with Putin—There would be no Russia-Ukrainian War right now if I were President. All of those lives would have been saved, all of those people would be living and healthy right now! “ -Donald Trump, Truth Social, April 1, 2023 […]
3/15/2023
INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP BUSINESS/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “Federal prosecutors in New York involved in the criminal investigation into Donald Trump’s social media company last year started examining whether it violated money laundering statutes in connection with the acceptance of $8m with suspected Russian ties, according to sources familiar with the matter… Towards the end of last year, federal prosecutors […]
2/20/2023
RALLY/UKRAINE/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “Donald Trump on Monday night [February 20, 2023] touted his great relationship with Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin and defended his past assertion that he trusted the foreign leader over his own intelligence community. ‘Putin never, ever would have gone into Ukraine if I were president,’ Trump told supporters at a Florida rally. ‘I […]
10/9/2022
UKRAINE/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “During an interview on Saturday morning [October 8, 2022] on Real America’s Voice, a right-wing network, the former president accused the US and its leadership of goading Putin into waging a botched invasion of Ukraine on February 24. ‘They actually taunted him, if you really look at it, our country and our so-called […]
5/19/2022
VLADIMIR PUTIN: “Vladimir Putin ‘had to keep explaining things’ to Donald Trump when Trump was US president, the former White House aide Fiona Hill said. ‘Putin doesn’t like to do that,’ Hill told the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. ‘You could see that he got frustrated many times with President Trump. Even though he loves […]
4/25/2022
2024 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN FINANCE/UKRAINE/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “[In an interview with Piers Morgan,] Trump dropped one of the biggest hints yet that he will run for President in 2024, stating: ‘For reasons of campaign finance I can’t say but I think people are going to be very happy [with my decision].’ […] Calling Putin a ‘genocidal monster,’ Trump […]
3/30/2022
JOE BIDEN/NATO/RUSSIA/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “I hear that VERY low-rated ‘Morning Joe’ and his psycho wife, Mika, think that I should not be asking Russia what the $3.5 million that Hunter and Joe [Biden] got from the Mayor of Moscow’s wife was for. In time, Russia may be willing to give that information. The Fake News is […]
3/29/2022
JOE BIDIN/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “Former President Donald Trump in a new interview called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to release information regarding alleged dealings between Eastern European oligarchs and Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s son… Trump has repeatedly promoted dubious claims of foreign business dealings by Hunter Biden, specifically alleging that he received millions of dollars […]
3/12/2022
ENERGY/RUSSIA/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “Do you think Putin is going to stop? It’s going to get worse and worse. He’s not going to accept it. And we don’t have anybody to talk to him. You had somebody to talk to him with me; no one was ever tougher on Russia than me… The U.S. must make clear […]
3/11/2022
UKRAINE/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “During a lengthy interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity on Thursday night [March 10, 2022]… Hannity tried to elicit Trump into calling Putin evil or something amounting to it. And repeatedly, Trump declined, instead focusing on tangential issues. When he did lament the atrocious scenes in Ukraine, he talked about it merely as […]
3/6/2022
CHINA/RUSSIA/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “Former president Donald Trump mused Saturday [March 5, 2022] to the GOP’s top donors that the United States should label its F-22 planes with the Chinese flag and ‘bomb the s–t out of Russia.’ […] ‘And then we say, China did it, we didn’t do it, China did it, and then they start […]
3/3/2022
LINDSEY GRAHAM/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, said on Wednesday that he thinks it ‘was a mistake’ for former President Donald Trump to call Russian President Vladimir Putin a genius. ‘I think that was a mistake. I think I know what he was trying to say, you know, going into the […]
3/1/2022
FAKE NEWS/UKRAINE/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “The RINOs, Warmongers, and Fake News continue to blatantly lie and misrepresent my remarks on Putin because they know this terrible war being waged against Ukraine would have never happened under my watch. They did absolutely nothing as Putin declared much of Ukraine an ‘independent territory.’ There should be no war waging […]
2/26/2022
AFGHANISTAN/RUSSIA/UKRAINE/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “The Russian attack on Ukraine is appalling. It’s an outrage and an atrocity that should never have been allowed to occur. It would never have occurred— We are praying for the proud people of Ukraine, God bless them all… As everyone understands, this horrific disaster would never have happened if our [2020] election […]
2/25/2022
RUSSIA/UKRAINE/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “As Russia prepared to strike Ukraine and the United States rushed to defend neighboring allies in Europe, former President Donald J. Trump had nothing but admiration for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. He is ‘pretty smart,’ Mr. Trump said on Wednesday [February 23, 2022] at a Florida fund-raiser, assessing the impending invasion […]
2/25/2022
HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA/UKRAINE/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “Appearing on ‘Morning Joe,’ [Hillary] Clinton accused Trump of ‘giving aid and comfort’ to Putin amid the ongoing invasion of Ukraine and claimed Republicans were playing into the latter’s ambitions to ‘undermine democracy’ by viewing him as a strong leader who aligned with their values. ‘We have to also make sure that […]
2/23/2022
JOE BIDEN/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “Putin is playing Biden like a drum. It is not a pretty thing to watch!” -Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, February 23, 2022 […]
2/22/2022
OIL/RUSSIA/UKRAINE/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “If properly handled, there was absolutely no reason that the situation currently happening in Ukraine should have happened at all. I know Vladimir Putin very well, and he would have never done during the Trump Administration what he is doing now, no way! Russia has become very very rich during the Biden Administration, […]
2/22/2022
JOE BIDEN/UKRAINE/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, ‘This is genius…’ Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine — of Ukraine. Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful. So, Putin is now saying, ‘It’s independent,’ a large section of Ukraine. I said, ‘How smart is […]
12/7/2021
AFGHANISTAN/JOE BIDEN/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “Vladimir Putin looks at our pathetic surrender in Afghanistan, leaving behind dead Soldiers, American citizens, and $85 billion worth of Military equipment. He then looks at Biden. He is not worried!” -Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, December 7, 2021 […]
11/17/2021
CHRIS CHRISTIE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie writes in his new memoir that former President Donald Trump believes Russian President Vladimir Putin is ‘just like him.’ Trump thought ‘that if he complimented Putin enthusiastically enough, the Russian president would behave,’ Christie writes… But Trump turned out to be wrong: his […]
6/17/2021
PIPELINES/RUSSIA/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “Trump told host Sean Hannity he is upset that Biden didn’t score any wins during the summit, while in his view, Putin and Russia dominated the day… ‘We gave a very big stage to Russia, and we got nothing. We gave up something that was unbelievably valuable. I stopped the pipeline, NordStream II, […]
6/10/2021
JOE BIDEN/RUSSIA/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “As President, I had a great and very productive meeting in Helsinki, Finland, with President Putin of Russia. Despite the belated Fake News portrayal of the meeting, the United States won much, including the respect of President Putin and Russia. Because of the phony Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, made-up and paid for […]
3/16/2021
2020 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP PEOPLE/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia authorized extensive efforts to hurt the candidacy of Joseph R. Biden Jr. during the election last year, including by mounting covert operations to influence people close to President Donald J. Trump, according to a declassified intelligence report released on Tuesday [Mar. 16, 2021]. […]
11/2/2020
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “This president likes to portray himself as a tough guy, a macho man. When’s the last time you saw a President of the United States literally being laughed at by the world leaders when he spoke to the United Nations? I don’t ever recall that ever happening. Can you believe when […]
10/22/2020
DEBATES/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “I don’t understand why this President is unwilling to take on Putin when he’s actually paying bounties to kill American soldiers in Afghanistan, when he’s engaged in activities that are trying to destabilize all of NATO. I don’t know why he doesn’t do it but it’s worth asking the question. Why […]
10/15/2020
AFGHANISTAN/NATO/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “And look what Putin is doing. You know, you have Americans — bounties on American military’s heads in Afghanistan. They have more people there now, by the way, than when I left — when we left, in Afghanistan. And we find ourselves in a situation where he [Donald Trump] spoke to Putin six […]
10/5/2020
2020 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “I’ve taken on the Castros and Putins of the world. I let them know: it stops here. It stops with me. It stops with me as president.“ ––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, October 5, 2020 3:15 pm […]
9/24/2020
RUSSIA/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “I’m actually the toughest there ever has been on Russia. I guarantee you Putin would say that, I guarantee you that Putin would say that behind the scenes he tells his people with the sanctions and all the things that I’ve done and the pipeline to Germany.” -Donald Trump in an interview with […]
9/17/2020
2020 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN/VLADIMIR PUTIN/VOTING: “I made it clear that early on that in attempting to interfere with our election is a violation of our sovereignty. And if it’s done again, which it appears to be being done, there will be a price to pay. There will be a price to pay. And Putin knows, the […]
9/7/2020
MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “In ‘Disloyal: A Memoir,’ [Donald Trump’s former] lawyer, Michael Cohen, writes that he believes his longtime client won’t leave office willingly if he is defeated in the November election… Cohen said Trump praised Russian President Vladimir Putin during the 2016 campaign because he assumed he would lose and wanted to make […]
9/5/2020
CHINA/JOE BIDEN/NANCY PELOSI/NORTH KOREA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “Nancy Pelosi said she got ‘set up’ by the owner (a very good one) of a beauty parlor. If so, how will she do in negotiations against President Xi of China, President Putin of Russia, or Kim Jong Un of North Korea. Not so well, I suspect, but […]
9/4/2020
JOE BIDEN/MILITARY/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “He [Donald Trump] stood by, failing– failing to take action or even raise the issue with Vladimir Putin while the Kremlin puts bounties on the heads of American troops in Afghanistan… We have many obligations as a government. We only have one truly sacred obligation. Equip and support those who we send […]
9/2/2020
JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “Once again, the Kremlin has used a favorite weapon — an agent from the Novichok class of chemicals — in an effort to silence a political opponent… The Kremlin no doubt thinks that it can act with impunity. Donald Trump has refused to confront Putin, calling him a “terrific person.” […]
8/31/2020
JOE BIDEN/MILITARY/RUSSIA/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “The Kremlin has put bounties on the heads of American soldiers. And instead of telling Vladimir Putin that there’d be no putting up with this, that there’d be a heavy price to pay if they dare touch an American soldier, this president doesn’t even bring up the subject in his multiple phone […]
8/29/2020
DNI/ELECTION/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “Nothing is more important than the security and integrity of our elections. And we know that President Trump is unwilling to take action to protect them. That leaves Congress as the best defender of our democracy. But now President Trump, through his hand-picked DNI — chosen for loyalty, not experience — […]
8/24/2020
JOE BIDEN/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “President Trump refuses to confront Vladimir Putin over Russia’s continuing assault against Ukraine, even insinuating on several occasions that Crimea is rightfully Russian territory. He withheld vital military assistance in an effort to extort Ukrainian President Zelensky into interfering in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. He sidelined professional diplomats in […]
8/21/2020
JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “Donald Trump continues to cozy up to Russia while Putin persecutes civil society and journalists. Now, opposition leader Alexei Navalny is in a coma after being poisoned. It’s unacceptable. Unlike Trump, I’ll defend our democratic values and stand up to autocrats like Putin.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Aug. 21, 2020 11:18 […]
8/11/2020
CIA/GOVERNMENT/INTELLIGENCE/JAMES CLAPPER/JAMES COMEY/JOHN BOLTON/POLICE/RUSSIA/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “John Bolton, one of the dumbest people I’ve met in government and sadly, I’ve met plenty, states often that I respected, and even trusted, Vladimir Putin of Russia more than those in our Intelligence Agencies. While of course that is not true, if the first people you met from…. ..so […]
7/27/2020
RUSSIA/VLADIMIR PUTIN: [Reporter: “You did talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin. And I wanted to ask if you did bring up the reports of Russia having bounties on our soldiers in Afghanistan.”] “We don’t talk about what we discussed, but we had plenty of discussion, and I think it was very productive.” -Donald Trump, “Remarks […]
7/23/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/PUTIN/SAUDI ARABIA: “This morning, I spoke with President Putin of Russia, and they’re going through a very hard time with this [coronavirus]— in Moscow, in particular. I spoke to the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. They’re doing well, but they’re going through a lot. Everybody is going through a lot. Yesterday, I spoke to the […]
6/3/2020
G7/OBAMA/PUTIN/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We have a G7. He’s [Putin] not there. Half of the meeting is devoted to Russia, and if he was there, it’d be much easier to solve. He used to be, it used to be the G8, and Obama got taken over to cleaners. I mean, Obama had his pockets picked, and […]
7/12/2018
VLADIMIR PUTIN: “Well, he’s [Vladimir Putin’ a competitor. He’s been very nice to me the times I’ve met him. I’ve been nice to him. He’s a competitor. You know, somebody was saying, “Is he an enemy?” No, he’s not my enemy. “Is he a friend?” No, I don’t know him well enough. But the couple […]
4/26/2018
RUSSIA/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “There’s no collusion with me and the Russians. Nobody’s been tougher to Russia than I am. You can ask President Putin about that. There’s been nobody. Between the military and the oil and all of the other things that I’ve done — the aluminum tax.” -Donald Trump as quoted by Aaron Blake, “Trump’s unwieldy […]
4/9/2018
RUSSIA/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “Can you have a good relationship with the leader of Russia at the same time you have a bad relationship with the country of Russia? The quest to do exactly that has been at the heart of President Donald Trump’s global strategy. He has tried hard to separate his leader-to-leader relationship […]
4/8/2018
RUSSIA/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VLADIMIR PUTIN/WAR: “President Trump on Sunday [4-8-18] promised a ‘big price’ to be paid for what he said was a chemical weapons attack that choked dozens of Syrians to death the day before, and a top White House official said the administration would not rule out a missile strike to retaliate against the […]
3/26/2018
RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “President Trump ordered the expulsion of 60 Russian officials on Monday [2-26-18], joining a coordinated campaign by two dozen countries to retaliate for the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain in a Cold War-style escalation that again highlighted the disparity between the president’s words and actions. The mass expulsion […]
1/23/2018
NATO/PUTIN/RUSSIA/JOE BIDEN: “I think a basic judgment has been reached that in order for Russia, with all its profound structural difficulties that it has, to be able to sustain itself and for this kleptocracy to continue, there’s—it’s much easier if you’re dealing with 28 different nations not in union with one another, not a Western […]
1/28/2017
RUSSIA/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “President Donald J. Trump received a congratulatory call today from Russian President Vladimir Putin. The call lasted approximately one hour and ranged in topics from mutual cooperation in defeating ISIS to efforts in working together to achieve more peace throughout the world including Syria. The positive call was a significant start to improving […]