Last year, during a closed-door meeting with donors, Donald Trump claimed that he once tried to deter Vladimir Putin from attacking Ukraine. He said he had threatened to “bomb Moscow to hell.”

This was reported by the American news channel CNN, which published an audio recording of the statement.

“With Putin I said, ‘If you go into Ukraine, I’m going to bomb the sh*t out of Moscow. I’m telling you I have no choice,’” Trump said during one 2024 fundraiser, according to the audio. “And then [Putin] goes, like, ‘I don’t believe you.’ But he believed me 10%.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/08/politics/trump-tape-putin-bomb-fundraiser
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