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One AmericaOct 19, 2021
Trump Claims He Threatened Putin With 'Hitting Moscow'
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The Facts
Former President Trump is once again in the news for his comments on Russian President Putin and the invasion of Ukraine.
In a 40s video posted to Twitter, Trump can be heard on speaker phone talking to golfer John Daly.
The Spin
Pro-Trump narrative
There's no scandal here. Trump's comments to Daly are perfectly in keeping with the public comments he made at CPAC just last week. Trump's strong leadership was an effective deterrent against Russian and Chinese aggression. The same cannot be said of Biden, NATO, and the diminished West.
Left narrative
Trump's tough talk comes just after his own National Security advisor, John Bolton, revealed that Putin was just biding his time until a second Trump term, when the former president intended to withdraw the US from NATO, an organization that Trump constantly sought to undermine.
