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Datum: 16. 10. 2026 21:21:57
June 2013: Trump tweets "Do you think Putin will be going to The Miss Universe Pageant in November in Moscow - if so, will he become my new best friend?"
September 2013: “So we’ve invited President Putin, that’ll be interesting. I know he’d like to go.”
October 2013: Trump tells Larry King that Putin has done “a really great job outsmarting our country.”
November 2013: Trump says “I do have a relationship and I can tell you that he’s very interested in what we’re doing here today. He’s probably very interested in what you and I are saying today, and I’m sure he’s going to be seeing it in some form, but I do have a relationship with him and I think it’s very interesting to see what’s happened.”
February 2014: “When I went to Russia with the Miss Universe pageant, (Putin) contacted me and was so nice. I mean, the Russian people were so fantastic to us,” he said on “Fox and Friends.” “I’ll just say this, they are doing – they’re outsmarting us at many turns, as we all understand. I mean, their leaders are, whether you call them smarter or more cunning or whatever, but they’re outsmarting us. If you look at Syria or other places, they’re outsmarting us.”
April 2014: “We just left Moscow,” Trump said. “He could not have been nicer. He was so nice and so everything. But you have to give him credit that what he’s doing for that country in terms of their world prestige is very strong.”
In the same interview, Trump praises Putin’s invasion of Crimea.
“Well, he’s done an amazing job of taking the mantle,” Trump said. “And he’s taken it away from the President, and you look at what he’s doing. And so smart. When you see the riots in a country because they’re hurting the Russians, OK, ‘We’ll go and take it over.’ And he really goes step by step by step, and you have to give him a lot of credit.”
April 2014: Trump says at a New Hampshire event that Putin is “absolutely having a great time.” He says “Russia is like, I mean they’re really hot stuff” and “and now you have people in the Ukraine — who knows, set up or not — but it can’t all be set up, I mean they’re marching in favor of joining Russia.”
May 2014: ”I own Miss Universe, I was in Russia, I was in Moscow recently and I spoke, indirectly and directly, with President Putin, who could not have been nicer, and we had a tremendous success.”
2014: James Dodson, a sports writer, claims that during a game of golf Eric Trump said to him: "Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia."
March 2015: Trump tells the Daily Mail about his relationship with Putin: “the relationship is great, and it would be great if I had the position I should have.”
September 2015: Trump tells reporters at Trump Tower that “Putin is a nicer person than I am.”
October 2015: Trump tells conservative radio host Michael Savage he’s met Vladimir Putin.
December 2015: Trump says at an event in South Carolina that Putin says he’s “brilliant.” And attacks his opponents, saying, “they want me to refute his statement.”
And many more along those lines.
December 2016: One of Europe's top intelligence figures puts together the Steele Dossier, reporting that Putin has blackmail on Trump, allegedly for something he did in a hotel room in Russia in 2013 during the Miss Universe visit.
Trump flips to claiming he's never met or spoken to Putin.
September 2016: During the 2016 presidential debates: "I don't know Putin. I have no idea," Mr Trump said. "I never met Putin. This is not my best friend."
When Hillary Clinton said it was "pretty clear" Mr Putin would "rather have a puppet as president of the United States," Trump replied with: “No puppet. No puppet. You’re the puppet. You’re the puppet."
Followed by years of Trump praising Putin, the only world leader he never criticizes while constantly criticizing democratic countries and allies. Refusing to implement sanctions on Russia for its hacking of the US which were passed with a veto proof majority. Attempting to blackmail Ukraine with having to invent something on Biden or having aid withdrawn. Giving an illegal order to the head of the FBI to stop investigating Russian interference in the election, then firing him over it. Declaring he's decided to believe Putin over his US intelligence agencies.
February 2022: Trump calls Putin ‘genius’ and ‘savvy’ for Ukraine invasion
February 2024: Trump says he would encourage Russia to attack Nato allies
February 2024: Trump won't say if he wants Russia or Ukraine to win the war
More recently, he's invited Putin to US soil, had America service members roll out the red carpet for him, now is sending billions of US taxpayer dollars to prop up Putin's economy, and is blocking access to Starlink for the US ally Ukraine who Putin is attacking. |
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