Trump tears into the ‘RINOs, Warmongers, and Fake News’ for ‘misrepresenting’ him calling Putin a ‘genius’ and blames Biden and the Democrats for letting Russian leader ‘get everything he wanted’
- The former president was criticized last week for calling Putin’s invasion ‘genius’
- He walked back those comments during his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference over the weekend, but still said Putin was ‘smart’
- In a statement released on Tuesday evening Trump said the Russian president’s attack on Ukraine would have ‘never happened under my watch’
- It comes as Biden reportedly readies to close US airspace to Russian planes
- The president is expected to make the announcement at his State of the Union
Donald Trump lashed out at the media and Republican ‘warmongers’ in an angry statement on Tuesday for ‘misrepresenting’ his comments calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a ‘genius’ for invading Ukraine.
The former president blamed ‘Biden, NATO, and the West’ for Moscow’s unprovoked attack on its neighbor and accused them of doing nothing while Putin declared two breakaway separatist regions of Ukraine to be independent republics, which then allowed their pro-Russia leaders to invite the Kremlin’s troops.
It comes as reports indicate President Joe Biden will close United States airspace to Russian planes as the latest punitive measure against Putin during his State of the Union speech Tuesday night.
The former president stirred outrage across the political spectrum late last week when he praised Russia’s authoritarian leader’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine as ‘genius’ and said his plan of designating two separatist breakaway areas as ‘independent’ was ‘pretty savvy.’
‘Putin is now saying, “It’s independent,” a large section of Ukraine. I said, “How smart is that?”‘ Trump said on The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show.