Donald Trump is definitely afraid of anything. In the last presidential campaign, the American billionaire would have boasted of having threatened Vladimir Putin by saying to him directly: “If you go to Ukraine, I will bomb Moscow. I tell you I have no choice ”. In this non -authenticated sound extract but where Donald Trump’s voice is clearly recognizable, the American president has fun with the reaction of his Russian counterpart. “He said to me,” I don’t believe you. ” But I think he believed me at least 10 % ”he says.
The White House did not wish to officially react to these words unveiled by CNN. Questioned Wednesday, the spokesperson for Kremlin, Dmitri Peskov, kicked out: “ I can neither confirm nor invalidate this, even if I wanted. »» The conversation would have taken place during a dinner with potential donors in 2023, where Trump tried to demonstrate that he could have prevented the war in Ukraine, launched in February 2022, if he had been re -elected in place of Joe Biden in 2020.
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The head of state would have made similar remarks against Xi Jinping. Also according to these recordings, he declared that he had threatened the Chinese president of “Bombing Beijing” In the event of an invasion of Taiwan. “He thought I was crazy”he comments, before concluding: “But we never had a problem. »»
These audio extracts come from a series of recordings made during several fundraising organized in New York and Florida, and obtained by three American journalists, Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf, authors of the book 2024.
These revelations arise as relations between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump are not exactly in good shape. On Tuesday, the American president accused his Russian counterpart of saying “Lots of bullshit” About Ukraine, while suggesting that it was considering new sanctions against Moscow. Words that reflect increasing frustration in the face of the continuation of the conflict launched by the Kremlin almost three years ago. The next day, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov reacted by assuring that Russia took these criticisms “Quiet” and that she counted “Continue (his) dialogue with Washington”.
