Trump Rants About ‘Rigged Election’ When Confronted By Journo Over Defiant Putin

President Donald Trump ranted about a “rigged election” when he was challenged about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s continued aggression in the face of Trump’s pleas for an end to the war in Ukraine.

For months, Putin has ignored Trump as he keeps up his violent attacks on Ukraine despite a steady stream of warnings and pleas from the president.

On Wednesday afternoon, Trump took questions at a swearing-in ceremony for Jeanine Pirro in the Oval Office, during which CBS News White House correspondent Nancy Cordes triggered a litany of grievances about the “rigged election” when she pointed out Putin “doesn’t seem willing to do anything that you want him to do”:

CBS NEWS’S NANCY CORDES: You’ve always said that the war never would have started if you were president.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Would have never happened, and it didn’t happen.

CBS NEWS’S NANCY CORDES: And yet he doesn’t seem willing to do anything that you want him to do. Do you still believe that, that he wouldn’t have launched the war?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: No, no, we would have never had a war. We would have had a never had war. If I were president, if the election weren’t rigged, you wouldn’t have had the war.

You wouldn’t had the war, you wouldn’t had inflation. You wouldn’t have had October 7th. That would have ever happened because Iran was stone cold broke. They didn’t have any money to give to Hamas or Hezbollah.

You wouldn’t have had that Afghanistan most embarrassing moment in the history of our country. You wouldn’t have any of it.

You wouldn´t have inflation because energy costs. Look what happened.

I brought inflation down to practically zero. And all of the groceries and all of eggs and all of the things that you’ve been hearing about, they’re back down. They’re way down from where they were.

I did something in four months that nobody’s seen. And I have to say, in four month, and I said it before, and everyone’s talking about it all over the world, we’ve got the hottest country anywhere in the world right now. We’re the only country anybody’s even talking about.

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