Putin erstwhile told me that he wouldn't want me to be mad at him due to the fact that I'm violent," stated erstwhile president Donald Trump on Thursday. Republican candidate for president besides stated that he "killed the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline".
During a more than 1.5-hour press conference at his property in Bedminster, fresh Jersey, Donald Trump, alongside economical topics and issues related to the election campaign, besides referred to accusations of sympathy with Russia and Vladimir Putin.
"They say: + he was good to Russia+. No, Putin even erstwhile told me: +if you were going to be friendly to me, I wouldn't want you to be mad at me due to the fact that you're brutal+," Trump said, attributing to killing the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. In fact, the erstwhile president signed a defence budget in 2020 containing sanctions against any companies active in the construction of the pipeline, but they did not halt the project. It was only after the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
With respect to the war in the Gaza Strip and the ongoing talks on the ceasefire, Trump said he did not intend to give advice to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu due to the fact that he “knows what he is doing”. At the same time, however, he admitted that during his July gathering with him in his Florida property he advised an Israeli politician to end the war as shortly as possible.
"It must be completed quickly. But end in victory. Take your triumph and end it. Killing must stop," Trump said.
Commenting on criminal cases against him and possible prison sentences in the fresh York trial, Trump – who, during the 2016 election campaign, called for the conviction of Hillary Clinton prison – stated that his decision was the reason his erstwhile rival in the presidential election did not go to jail.
"As for Hillary Clinton, erstwhile it came time to make a decision, I said I didn't want the United States President's wife in jail. I want the country to unite," he said, adding that he was friends with Bill Clinton.
Donald Trump besides referred to the course of the current election campaign, stressing that although most of the polls point to the advantage of his rival Kamali Harris, in fact he leads in public opinion research. Questioned position of their advisors, who were to urge that he resign from insulting Kamala Harris and focus on circumstantial problems, Trump replied that, like her, she has the right to attack her competitor, referring to her personality traits.
"I don't have much respect for her, I don't have much respect for her intelligence and I think she'd be a terrible president," he said. He added that in order to win, his run must "define Harris as a Communist, a socialist, or individual who will destruct our country."
On the Democrats' side, on Thursday, for the first time since the party's change from candidate to president, a joint rally was attended by President-in-Office Joe Biden and his possible vice president Kamala Harris. Biden stated that Harris would be “a damn good president.” He besides deliberately misnamed his predecessor Donald Trump, calling him "Donald Dump" (Donald Dump)
“The man against whom we stand, what was his name? Donald Dump or Donald... whatever. They want to get free of what we have adopted," said Biden, referring to reforms that set a price limit for medicines specified as insulin.
From Washington Oskar Górzyński (PAP)
