Trump abandons NATO and says “Russia. Used to be the Soviet Union, now it’s Russia, sort of the same thing heh.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/10/politics/video/trump-nato-remarks-detroit-john-bolton-src-digvid
One of Putin’s goals is to reestablish the Empire of the old Soviet Union which had devoured countries such as;
“The United Socialist Soviet Republic, or U.S.S.R., was made up of 15 republics: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.”
Plus:
A “communist satellite state of the Soviet Union” refers to a country in Eastern Europe, like Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, East Germany, and Albania, that was politically and economically controlled by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, essentially acting as a dependent state with a communist government aligned with Moscow’s policies.
It looks like Trump is still actively supporting Russia today – and supports Russia taking over Eastern Europe.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/10/politics/trump-russia-nato/index.html
Trump says he would encourage Russia to ‘do whatever the hell they want’ to any NATO country that doesn’t pay enough February 11, 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia-asset-claims-former-kgb-spy-new-book
‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy – 2021
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c33vjjg8k3yo
Book claims Trump secretly sent Covid test machine to Putin during shortage – 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/10/kremlin-confirms-reports-donald-trump-sent-vladimir-putin-covid-tests
Kremlin confirms reports Donald Trump sent Vladimir Putin Covid tests
https://thehill.com/policy/international/4924145-susan-rice-trump-putin-logan-act/
Former White House adviser and United Nations ambassador Susan Rice called out former President Trump over a report that he has spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin at least seven times since leaving office, suggesting such calls would violate the Logan Act.
What Trump secretly sent to Putin
The book (Woodward’s book “War”) also contains new details about Trump’s relationship with the Russian president. In 2020, Woodward writes, Trump had “secretly sent Putin a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines for his personal use.”
During the height of the pandemic, Russia and the United States did exchange medical equipment such as ventilators. But Putin — who infamously isolated himself over fears of Covid — told Trump on a phone call to keep the delivery of the Abbott machines quiet, Woodward reports.
“Please don’t tell anybody you sent these to me,” Putin said to Trump, according to Woodward.
“I don’t care,” Trump replied. “Fine.”
“No, no,” Putin said. “I don’t want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you, not me. They don’t care about me.”
Trump told ABC News on Tuesday that report is “false.”
Woodward writes that Trump has stayed in touch with Putin after leaving office.
In one scene, Woodward recounts a moment at Mar-a-Lago where Trump tells a senior aide to leave the room so “he could have what he said was a private phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.”
“According to Trump’s aide, there have been multiple phone calls between Trump and Putin, maybe as many as seven in the period since Trump left the White House in 2021,” Woodward writes.
Woodward asked Trump aide Jason Miller whether Trump and Putin had spoken since he left the White House. “Um, ah, not that, ah, not that I’m aware of,” Miller told Woodward.
“I have not heard that they’re talking, so I’d push back on that,” Miller added.
Woodward writes that Biden’s Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines “carefully hedged” when asked about whether there were any post-presidency Trump-Putin calls.
“I would not purport to be aware of all contacts with Putin. I wouldn’t purport to speak to what President Trump may or may not have done,” Haines said, according to Woodward.
Trump denied the reporting in an interview with Newsmax on Tuesday
More:
https://apnews.com/article/trump-nato-foreign-aid-russia-2b8054a9fe185eec34c2c541cece655d
https://swalwell.house.gov/issues/russia-trump-his-administration-s-ties
https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/trump-russia
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