Trump tells Musk how he warned Putin against invading Ukraine

US presidential candidate Donald Trump, during an interview with billionaire Elon Musk, has criticized US President Joe Biden and blamed him for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The interview was broadcast on the X platform (Twitter), according to Yevropeiska Pravda.

The war in Ukraine was one of the many topics of the more than two-hour conversation between Trump and Musk, who repeatedly demonstrated agreement with his interlocutor during the interview.

Trump repeated several times his assertion that Russian aggression would never have happened if he had been president, suggesting that Vladimir Putin was provoked to invade by President Joe Biden's words about opening the door for Ukraine to join NATO.

"Those words of his were so bad, those stupid threats coming out of that stupid face," Trump said.

Musk did not dispute Trump's statement, but instead agreed with him, saying, "You made a great point."

The former president also recalled his alleged conversation with the Russian leader, in which he allegedly warned him against invading Ukraine.

"I told Vladimir Putin: "Don't do it. You can't do it, Vladimir, it's going to be a bad day for you,'" Trump said, adding that he nevertheless "got along well with Putin" and "hopes to get along well with him again."

It is worth noting that Elon Musk said that his platform was the victim of a "massive" DDoS attack before the interview. He suggested that this happened because "there's a lot of opposition to people just hearing what President Trump is saying."

The conversation, which Trump's team had billed as "the biggest interview in history," was delayed by about half an hour. In the end, just over a million users joined the conversation.

Author - Dmitriy Levchenko, 13/08/2024