Audio of a 2024 campaign speech to donors at a private event obtained by CNN reveals that convicted felon President Trump had told donors he had at some point between 2017 and 2021 warned Russian dictator Vladimir Putin he would “bomb the shit out of Moscow” if they invaded Ukraine and that he separately had delivered a similar warning to Chinese dictator Xi Jingping that the same would happen to Beijing if the People’s Liberation Army invaded Taiwan.
“With Putin I said, ‘If you go into Ukraine, I’m going to bomb the shit out of Moscow. I’m telling you I have no choice. And then Putin goes, like, ‘I don’t believe you.’ But he believed me 10 percent,” said Trump, who pretty obviously did not order a bombardment of Moscow upon reassuming office nearly three years after Russia launched the “special operation” starting the still-ongoing war.