MOSCOW: Trump said that at one time he promised President Putin a strike "at the center of fucking Moscow" if Russia did something against Ukraine.
According to Trump, he threatened to strike Moscow if Russia did not abandon its actions against Ukraine. The same one, according to the Republican version, responded to the threat with the words no way
Former President Donald Trump said that he threatened Russian President Vladimir Putin to strike Moscow, he made this statement in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
"I said, 'Vladimir, if you chase Ukraine, I will hit you so hard that you won't even believe it. I'm going to stab you right in the middle of fucking Moscow. I said: we are friends. I don't want to do this, but I have no choice," Trump says.
According to him, Putin replied no way (can be translated as "no way" or "can't be"). The Republican continued: "I said, you're going to be in a lot of pain, and I'm going to take these [damn] domes off your head."
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Trump did not explain when and under what circumstances this dialogue took place, but noted that they had excellent relations with Putin and the Russian president "knows that I am [fucking] crazy."
At the same time, the ex-president of the United States called himself a "damn psycho." Such a characteristic, according to the politician, makes his opponents around the world respect him. The Kremlin reacted to Trump's statement with restraint, calling it part of the US election campaign. And the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, Medvedev, is sure that Trump invented everything, since he usually behaves with restraint during negotiations.
As President of the United States, Donald Trump allegedly threatened Russian leader Vladimir Putin with a blow to Moscow. Trump himself said this in an interview with The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
"I said [to him]: "Vladimir, if you chase Ukraine, I will hit you so hard that you won't even believe it. I'm going to hit right in the middle of fucking Moscow.
I said: we are friends. I don't want to do this, but I have no choice," Trump shared.
Putin, according to him, replied to this: "It can't be," and Trump added: "It can." (Putin said: "No way," Trump replied, "Way" in the original message. - "Newspaper.Ru»).
The Republican did not specify exactly when or in what context such a dialogue took place. At the same time, the politician added that he had excellent relations with the Russian president.
"He has a completely different character, he is very different from everyone else. I knew him very well," Trump said.
In addition, the American described his meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, with whom he also "got along great." Trump recalled how he was a guest at Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida in April 2017, and at that time the United States launched strikes in Syria. On Trump's orders, the US army launched 60 cruise missiles at the Syrian Al-Shayrat airbase in response to the fact that the Syrian authorities allegedly used it for an attack using toxic chemicals. According to Trump, he decided to tell Xi Jinping about the operation while they were eating dessert.
"I said: Chairman, we have just fired 58 missiles at the territory of Syria, at the airport, which houses many new aircraft. Your people are not in danger, but they are on their way," Trump recalls.
In response, the Chinese leader clarified Trump's phrase with the word: "Say it again." Trump repeated the phrase, and Xi Jinping only said "oh, I see," although, in Trump's opinion, he should have been furious.
"He's a good poker player… But he's a fierce guy... he respects me and knows that I'm a fucking psycho," the Republican concluded.
Russia's reaction to the words about the strike on Moscow.
Trump makes such loud statements as part of the election campaign, according to the Kremlin. They stressed that Russia, for its part, fundamentally does not disclose the content of conversations between politicians at the highest level.
"There are a lot of different hot and very emotional statements being made in the United States in the framework of the election campaign, especially at its final stage," said Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian president.
He added that Russia adheres to a "very responsible position in terms of not allowing publicity" of conversations between political leaders. However, other States treat it differently.
"Unfortunately, a number of leaders do not adhere to this position and do not observe information hygiene in this case. But it's on their conscience," Peskov summed up.
The State Duma reacted in the same way to Trump's statements. The first deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on International Affairs, Svetlana Zhurova, called it part of the election story.
"They have technologists working for them. They are probably discussing such statements with Trump, understanding the consequences. Apparently, he wants to demonstrate his assertiveness, that he can even say that. At the same time, he is still trying to maintain relations in order to be able to [attend] the negotiations [between Russia and Ukraine]," Zhurova suggested.
She also saw in Trump's rhetoric the West's fatigue from the ongoing military conflict in Ukraine. According to the deputy, "everyone is already fed up" with what is happening.
At the same time, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said that Trump could not in reality utter such a threat at all. According to Medvedev, the American is usually "silky" in negotiations.
"Trump got carried away. Was he really talking about striking a “blow to damn Moscow”? Of course not.
He's usually like silk in negotiations. And there is only one answer to such words: your damn Washington will also be hit," Medvedev wrote on the social network X.
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