Kellyanne Conway Claims Trump ‘Certainly Has Been the Strongest Toward Putin’
Kellyanne Conway praised former President Donald Trump over his policies toward Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Conway, who served as senior counselor to Trump when he was president, spoke on Fox News shortly after the network aired remarks by President Joe Biden. The president had just met Yulia Navalny – the widow of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian prison in the Arctic Circle last week.
Biden said Putin is “responsible” for Navalny’s death. Meanwhile, Trump claimed that he is being treated like Navalny, as evidenced by the four criminal indictments against him.
“He said, Kellyanne, Putin was responsible for the death of Navalny,” host Martha MacCallum said on Thursday’s edition of The Story. “We didn’t hear that specifically from President Trump the other night. He said he felt like he could sympathize with Navalny and the pressure that he’s under based on the attacks that he has also felt in this country. But should he take a stronger stance against Putin and his role in this?”
Conway responded by describing Trump’s actions as being the “strongest” toward the Russian dictator:
Well, he certainly has been the strongest against Putin. Vladimir Putin annexed a sovereign nation, Crimea [in] 2014, or invade sovereign nations, Ukraine 2022 when Joe Biden is in the White House – not when Donald Trump is. He senses weakness…
[Biden] doesn’t have the agility, the ability, the acuity. And he can’t– the guy that we just saw there can’t even speak for 90 seconds without seeming dazed, confused, and exhausted. How would he stand in a debate against Donald Trump for 90 minutes? This is a serious matter.
Look, I don’t think Vladimir Putin was very happy when the Trump administration was exporting natural gas and oil to European countries including Poland, which theretofore had been purchasing from Putin. We expelled Russians from this country. We sanctioned the banks in his country. So, the facts are that Putin senses weakness in Biden. Trump at least has said when he gets back to the White House, he will try to end this war in Ukraine. That is much more than what we’ve seen from Joe Biden and his reckless, I think feckless vice president, Kamala Harris.
Trump has been infamously complimentary of Putin over the years. During the Helsinki Summit in 2018, Trump held a joint press conference with the Russian leader and accepted his claims that Russia did not interfere in the 2016 election in the U.S.
“President Putin says it’s not Russia. I don’t see any reason why it would be,” Trump said when confronted with the conclusions of U.S. intelligence assessments that Russia meddled. Trump also called Putin’s invasion of Ukraine “genius” and “savvy.”
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