MADRID (EUROPA PRESS) – Former US President Donald Trump has described the President of the United States, Joe Biden, as “incompetent” and “weak”, and has blamed him for the crisis in Ukraine.
“They are allowing [Putin] get away with this assault on humanity. Putin is beating Biden like a drum,” Trump said at the Conservative Political Action Conference held this Saturday in Orlando.
Trump has ridiculed the sanctions policy that the United States and NATO allies are imposing on Russia after the attack on Ukraine.
“Putin is saying ‘oh, they’re going to sanction me like they’ve sanctioned me for the last 25 years.’ You mean I can take over an entire country and they’re just going to sanction me?” Trump said to the applause of his supporters.
Trump has also tried to put into context remarks he made on February 22 at a fundraiser in Florida in which he called Putin a “smart” person.
“I like to tell the truth. Yes, he is smart. The problem is not that Putin is smart, which of course he is, but the real problem is that our leaders are dumb,” the former president said.
Trump’s continued praise of the Russian leader exposes a rift in a Republican party trying to reconcile Trump’s populist wing with its traditional hawkish stance on Moscow, party sources told Bloomberg.
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