Trump Declares He Could Do ‘Devastating’ Things to Russia, But Doesn’t Want to Because He Want to ‘Get Peace’

President Donald Trump said that he could do “devastating” things to Russia, but doesn’t want to because he hopes to broker a peace between it and Ukraine while taking questions in the Oval Office Wednesday.

“You said earlier that it was now up to Russia in terms of the ceasefire,” observed one reporter referring to Ukraine’s decision to sign on to an agreement floated by the U.S. that is now being brought before Russia.

“Is there anything you can do in terms of pressuring Russia?” he asked Trump.

“Yeah, yeah, we can, but I hope it’s not going to be necessary. Sure we can pressure — we can do that with Russia,” answered the president.

He continued:

Remember this: Russia took Georgia from Bush, right? They took Crimea from a man named Obama, Barack Hussein Obama, right? They tried to take the whole thing from Biden — they go for the whole ball of wax. Who is the only one that never took anything from? Trump. And in fact, I’m the one that stopped Nord Stream 2, the pipeline, the biggest pipeline anywhere in the world. I stopped it. It was dead. And then Biden got in and he approved it. Nobody mentions that. What I did to Russia was very tough. I was the toughest ever. But nope, they never took anything from me. They took them from Obama and Bush, and they took it from Sleepy Joe Biden. With Biden, they wanted to take the whole country, but I think I’ve stopped that. But we’ll see.

But yeah, there are things you could do that that wouldn’t be pleasant in a financial sense. I can do things financially that would be very bad for Russia. I don’t want to do that because I want to get peace. I want to see peace, and we’ll see. But in a financial sense, yeah, we could do things very bad for Russia. It would be devastating for Russia. But I don’t want to do that because I want to see peace. And we’re getting close to maybe getting something done. We’ve got Ukraine done. And as you, as you know, I’ve always said that Ukraine might have been the more difficult party. You saw-, you were here a week ago and some interesting things happened. I had somebody that didn’t seem to want peace. Now he’s agreed to peace. So we’ll see what happens.

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