'Bomb The Sh*t Out Of Moscow': Trump's Tells Why He Threatened Putin And Xi In Leaked Audio File
Donald Trump last year said he threatened Russian President Vladimir Putin with bombing Moscow if his troops moved into Ukraine, as revealed in an audio tape accessed by CNN.
Addressing a private gathering of donours during on 2024 fundraiser, Trump said, "With Putin I said, ‘If you go into Ukraine, I’m going to bomb the sh*t 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%.”
Later, Trump claimed he relayed a similar warning to Chinese President Xi Jinping over a potential invasion of Taiwan, telling him the US would bomb Beijing in retaliation.
“He thought I was crazy,” Trump said of Xi, before noting that “we never had a problem.”
The remarks, which came during Trump's run for a second term, were among those captured in a series of audio tapes of 2024 fundraisers in New York and Florida.
The Trump campaign has declined to comment on the content of the tapes.
The Republican leader referred to his conversation with Putin and Xi while arguing he would have staved off the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza if he were president instead of Joe Biden. He had been repeating his claim as he now struggles to end both the wars.
On Tuesday, Trump complained that the Russian leader was throwing "a lot of bullsh*t" at the US as he expressed his frustration with Putin's resistance to a peace deal.
“I’m not happy with Putin,” he said during a Cabinet meeting. “I’m very unhappy with them.”
During one such fundraiser, Trump boasted about pressuring wealthy allies to donate tens of millions of dollars to his campaign. At another, he talked about his administration's efforts to deport student protesters in addition to recounting his exchanges with foreign leaders.
“One thing I’d do is any student that protests, I would throw them out of the country,” he said at a second closed-door fundraiser, vowing to crack down on pro-Palestinian demonstrations on college campuses. “Those people made a big mistake. Throw them out of the country, and I think that will stop it,” he added.
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