Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday he knew that Russian President Vladimir Putin always wanted to take over Ukraine, but that as president he refused to let it happen.
“I knew that he always wanted Ukraine,” Trump said in an interview with radio hosts Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. “I used to talk to him about it.”
The former president recalled that he understood Putin, but said he would not allow him to invade his neighboring country.
“I said, ‘You can’t do it. You’re not gonna do it,'” Trump said. “But I could see that he wanted it. I used to ask him. We used to talk about it at length.”
