President Donald Trump has mostly pinned Vladimir Putin’s invasion on his predecessor, calling it “Joe Biden’s war,” but he added criticism for President Barack Obama for starting it all with the “giving away” of Crimea in 2014.
“That is when it really began, when Obama gave it away,” Trump said in a televised phone interview Tuesday morning.
Trump told Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy that, from Putin’s side, getting back Crimea or getting Ukraine into NATO is off the table in any long-term peace deal. He warned the “fake news” media that if those concessions become permanent, the blame would lie not with him but with past Democrat administrations under Obama and Biden.
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