Donald Trump Pals Begged Him To Stop Kissing Vladimir Putin’s Butt During Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine

ORLANDO, Florida — At the dawn of a new Russia invade Ukraine this week, Donald Trump appeared to be at a Russian roadshow, telling anyone who would hear of the miracle of President Vladimir Putin’s ability to take over the country next door at will.

But as Russia continued to attack Ukraine, some advisers and associates were in fact begging the former president to stop his ostentatious praises of Putin. Trump’s warm words for the Russian leader, whom the former president frequently boasted about knowing “very well,” startled even some of Trump’s one-time lieutenants. were conditioned to hide their disgust with the actions of the 45th president of the United States.

Dan Coats, who was previously President Trump’s director of national intelligence, told The Daily Beast on Thursday night: “I was surprised to hear that. “I can’t think of any other US president in a situation like this who would say what he says.”

In the past few days, as reports of the preparation and implementation of the bloody invasion became more and more serious, Trump – famously impeached for pressuring the Ukrainian government to use bogus things. to investigate the Biden family – can’t resist the will to rebel His anti-democratic “big lie,” he also can’t stop himself from constantly flattering Russian leader in many locations.

It got to the point that on Thursday afternoon, several longtime associates who had spoken with Trump since Tuesday told him he might want to stay away from lavishness. also Much praise is given to Putin, and perhaps too much should not be praised for his intellect, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter. At least one adviser recently mentioned to Trump that it would be more beneficial to simply call Biden a loser and taciturn.

None of them had high hopes that the former president would carry out the advice.

On Tuesday, The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show posted an interview with former President Trump in which he falsely claimed the 2020 US Presidential election was “rigged” against him, praising Putin’s Ukraine strategy as “genius” and suggested that the US government should deploy similar tactics to curb immigration at our southern border.

Similarly, on Wednesday night, the night Putin’s military campaign began, the twice-impeached former president spoke at a fundraising event at Florida’s private club, Mar-a-Lago, where he speak, “I mean, he’s taking over a country with $2 worth of sanctions. I have to say that’s pretty clever. “Trump has secured the allegation that Putin would not do this in the face of President Trump’s watch, a counterfactual statement that makes Trump Administration‘S actual profile.

For months, Republicans, candidates, their staff and lawmakers have been anticipating a golden opportunity to drag Biden only as “weak” and “Jimmy Carter 2.0” amid Russia’s invasion coincides with the US election year. But the party’s standard-bearer’s rambling analysis has left many of his confidants and major allies wishing he was “shut up about it.” and keep it to yourself, a person close to Trump said.

However, trumpet ride or die Rudy Giuliani, who helped trigger Trump’s first impeachment by Leading the pressure campaign on Ukraine instead of Trumpappear to be on the same page, telling Newsmax on Thursday that he believes the Biden administration is on top and that Putin “plays this almost like a symphony conductor.”

“He stretched it out to make Biden look more and more goofy,” Giuliani said. “They have a president, we don’t.”

But in conservatives and in the media and political elites of the movement, they mostly blame Biden and his “weakness” for plunging the world into chaos.

Representative Elise Stefanik (R-CA), a third-class Republican in the House who serves on the Armed Services Committee, has decried Biden’s inaction – despite his numerous sanctions. to Russian oligarchs and repeated calls by conservatives not to join the war – led to Thursday’s Invasion. The message was echoed by Republican Delegates Scott Perry (PA), Brian Mast (FL) and Madison Cawthorn (NC).

Stefanik wrote in a Statement on Twitter. “Over the past year, our competitors around the world have assessed and measured Joe Biden’s leadership on the world stage, and he has failed miserably on every indicator.”

Even at the 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, which quickly turned into a MAGA festival during Trump’s presidency, speakers and attendees focused on engaging Biden rather than marvel at Russia’s might — and hardly to mention the rapidly escalating conflict at all.

Former Trump deputy national security adviser KT McFarland first mentioned the Russian invasion about 45 minutes into the first day. She declared Russia’s action “an all-out invasion of an independent country”, while managing to blame it on Biden’s “unrelenting” administration.

“They can’t stop what Vladimir Putin is doing,” McFarland said. “He has a plan to influence this administration where he can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, with Ukraine.”

Biden’s attack continued throughout other Thursday’s CPAC panels, with several speakers such as Turning Point USA executive Charlie Kirk arguing real invasion What Americans should care about is at the US-Mexico border, not in Europe.

“The southern border of the United States is much more important than the border with Ukraine,” Kirk said in his speech. “I’m more worried about how gangs are trying to infiltrate our country than about a dispute 5,000 miles away in cities we can’t pronounce in places that most people don’t know. All American citizens cannot be found on the map… We are being invaded!”

Local attendees agreed. Kathryn Lehr, of Boulder, Colorado, “Free Boulder” hat resident, who claims she was at the January 6 uprising in the Capitol, attacked Democrats blocking plans to build a wall Trump’s border and falsely claimed Biden invited illegal immigrants into “As if this were his damn country to invite millions to come illegally.”

“An excuse not to secure the southern border?” “I’ve never heard a good reason from a Democrat why the southern border shouldn’t be secured,” said Lehr, who put her age in the 50s.

Some potential White House hopefuls, however, took different approaches to Thursday’s invasion.

During the midday 20-minute period at the annual conservative summit, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis—Deemed as a front-runner for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, if Trump ends up not running — hit every conservative buzzword for thunderous applause, railings against” Brandon management” on his handling of COVID-19, immigration, and his relationship with Florida.

Ukraine is not mentioned even once.