Former US President Donald Trump criticized his successor Joe Biden as weak at the conservative CPAC conference. At the same time, he drew a comparison between the war in Ukraine and the situation on the southern US border.
Former US President Donald Trump has attacked his successor Joe Biden over Russia’s attack on Ukraine, comparing the invasion to the situation at the US border. “The Biden administration has spent months pondering how to stop an invasion of a foreign country thousands of miles away,” Trump said Saturday night (local time) at the conservative CPAC conference in Orlando, Fla ). “I believe the Americans deserve a president who will also stop the invasion of our country.”
Trump alluded to migration across the US southern border – he had promised to build a wall there during his tenure. Democrats say Ukraine’s borders are sacred, Trump said. At the same time, they would destroy US borders and sacrifice US sovereignty. “We have a border that is a disaster. People are coming into our country that we don’t want, who aren’t good for our country.”
Trump: “Get on well with Putin”
Trump also stressed during his appearance in Orlando that the Russian attack on Ukraine was “appalling”, a “scandal and an atrocity”. The ex-president was not stingy with self-praise either, claiming again that there had been no invasion under his administration. At that time Russia would have respected America, President Biden was seen as weak. Throughout his tenure, critics have accused Trump of soft-talking Russian President Vladimir Putin.
This plays “on Biden like on a drum,” said Trump. He, on the other hand, got along well with Putin. “You can be very tough and still get by.” Putin understood that he was not playing games, the ex-president continued. Above all, Trump showed contempt for the United States’ western partners: NATO was behaving “anything but intelligently” in the Ukraine crisis. For this he praised Putin’s intellect: “The problem is not that Putin is smart, because of course he is smart. The real problem is that our leaders are stupid. Stupid. So stupid.”
Trump already called Putin “brilliant”
The right-wing populist caused a stir on Tuesday when he praised Putin’s handling of the Ukraine crisis as “brilliant”. The 75-year-old said in a radio interview that the recognition of the separatist areas in eastern Ukraine and the announcement of the deployment of alleged peacekeeping troops were simply “smart”.
Source: Stern
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