War In Ukraine: Trump Praises Putin’s ‘Intelligence’, Charges Biden – The HuffPost

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UNITED STATES – In Florida, this Saturday, February 26, Donald Trump continued to use the war in ukraine to criticize his successor in the White House, Joe Bidenand repeat his unproven allegations of fraud during the presidential election.

“The problem is not that Putin is smart, because of course he is smart,” he told the audience at the major annual national convention of American conservatives. The real problem is that our leaders are so dumb.” The former president then pitted the “intelligence” of the Russian president against the “weakness” of Joe Biden, which, according to him, would have led to theinvasion of Ukrainewhich he nevertheless described as an “attack on humanity”.

“Putin is smart… Our leaders are dumb.” Former President Donald Trump spoke at CPAC in Orlando on a range of topics from the Supreme Court to election security. Trump also addressed the current crisis in Ukraine, calling it an “assault against humanity.” pic.twitter.com/F5K51mhz8w

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NATO, he also said, “looks anything but smart” in hitting Russia with sanctions instead of deciding to “reduce it to pieces – at least psychologically”.

“An affront and an atrocity”

He also qualified Volodymyr Zelensky of “brave man”, while affirming the untruth according to which the Ukrainian president would have cleared him of the scandal which led to his first impeachment trial.

For the former president, the war in Ukraine “is an affront and an atrocity”. “I have no doubt that President Putin made his decision after seeing the pathetic withdrawal (of American forces from May 2021, editor’s note) from Afghanistan”, he commented.

“As everyone understands, this horrible disaster would never have happened if our election had not been rigged”, he also launched during his 86-minute speech, taking up one of his favorite antiphons.

On Tuesday, in a press release, he had already assured that Vladimir Putin would “never” have acted in this way under his administration, touting his relationship with the Russian head of state when he was president. He also felt that Vladimir Putin’s strategy in Ukraine was “genius”.

The 75-year-old Republican billionaire drew the most applause when he called “bullshit” the fact that the Democrats are presenting themselves as the party of democracy, and when he said that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg , “came to the White House and licked my ass”.

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During his speech, he hinted at a possible candidacy in 2024. “We did it twice and we will do it again”, he claimed while presenting his defeat of 2020 like a victory. But he has left the public in limbo over his willingness to personally challenge Joe Biden for the next presidential term.

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