Trump says that a conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin delayed the country's invasion of Ukraine by “several years.”
Trump made the comments during an interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier on Monday, saying he told Putin an invasion would be “catastrophic” and have dire consequences.
Baier asked Trump, who is currently running for President, how he would end the invasion within 24 hours as he's repeatedly stated
“I thought he might do it,” Trump continued. “Look, I talked to him. I said, if you do it, there's going to be hell to pay. It's going to be a catastrophe. Don't do it.”
Putin initially did not believe Trump would take any action, according to Trump, but he pushed back: “I told him I was going to do something. He said, ‘No, no, no, you will not do that.' I said, I will, Vladimir, I will do it. I'm going to do it.”
Trump, also a 2024 presidential candidate, said that Putin believed “maybe 10%” of what he was saying, but that 10% was “all you needed” to stop the invasion from happening. “It was only after I left [office] that you started hearing about this,” he added.
As for the current conflict, Trump refused to weigh in on what might be involved in a negotiation between the two countries as it would “impede a negotiation.”
“I would have a deal done in 24 hours from the time we started. And I would tell Zelenskyy something and I would tell Putin something, and I'd get him into a room, and I'd tell him again, and again,” Trump said.
He added: “I would have a deal done very quickly. And you know what? The death would stop, and the destruction would stop because, look, Ukraine has been wiped out.”
Russia's current invasion of Ukraine has lasted more than 480 days, according to Fox News.
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