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“I felt insulted” was the first response from former US President Donald Trump to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s preference for Joe Biden for the presidency of America.
In statements he made today, Thursday, Trump said that he initially felt insulted when Putin chose Biden instead of the former US president when asked who his country preferred as president of the United States.
The Republican candidate in the US presidential race also considered that his archrival, Biden, had provided an invaluable gift to Putin, namely Ukraine. He believed that it was natural for the master of the Kremlin to prefer the current US president over him, stressing that he was the only president who had not offered anything to Russia.
He also mentioned again his ability to end the Russian-Ukrainian war, stressing that if he had been president, he would not have allowed that war to break out in the first place.
Just a compliment
However, he later believed, in a speech he delivered to a crowd in South Carolina, that Putin was only complimenting Biden.
TRUMP: “Putin came out and he said 'I'd much rather have Biden be president'... That's a war that never would've happened if I was president.”
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) February 15, 2024
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He said, "Putin just gave me an important compliment. He confirmed that he prefers Biden to be president. This is a very good thing, contrary to what some might think."
He also considered that he hurt Putin in some of the decisions he made during his presidency, noting that he "put an end to Nord Stream and stopped the agreement during his term...but Biden brought it back to life later."
This came after Putin, in a television interview yesterday, Wednesday, described his American counterpart as a person whose actions are “more predictable” than Trump's. In response to a question about who Russia prefers to win in the potential confrontation between the current Democratic president and the Republican candidate, he said, "Biden is more experienced, and his actions can be predicted. He is a traditional, old-school politician," unlike Trump.
But he expressed his readiness to deal with whoever wins the US presidential elections scheduled for next November.
Trump often praised the intelligence of the Russian President during his recent election statements and even before that as well. While some Democrats accused him of being close to the Kremlin master and even colluding with him during the previous presidential elections,
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