{"id":131164,"date":"2016-07-31T15:38:19","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T21:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/31\/that-time-trump-was-incoherent-about-ukraine-and-russia.html"},"modified":"2016-07-31T15:38:19","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T21:38:19","slug":"that-time-trump-was-incoherent-about-ukraine-and-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/31\/that-time-trump-was-incoherent-about-ukraine-and-russia.html","title":{"rendered":"That time Trump was incoherent about Ukraine and Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

'Donald Trump said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin won't make a military move into Ukraine — even though Putin already has done just that, seizing the country's Crimean Peninsula. "He's not going into Ukraine, OK, just so you understand. He's not going to go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down. You can put it down. You can take it anywhere you want," Trump said in an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos on "This Week."<\/i><\/p>\n

_"Well, he's already there, isn't he?" Stephanopoulos responded, in a reference to Crimea, which Putin took from Ukraine in early 2014.<\/p>\n

_Trump said: "OK — well, he's there in a certain way. But I'm not there. You have Obama there. And frankly, that whole part of the world is a mess under Obama with all the strength that you're talking about and all of the power of NATO and all of this. In the meantime, he's going away. He takes Crimea."<\/p>\n

Stephanopoulos interjected to note that Trump has suggested he could recognize Russia's claim on Crimea over Ukraine's — and Trump didn't back away from that possibility in the interview. "I'm going to take a look at it," he said. "But you know, the people of Crimea, from what I've heard, would rather be with Russia than where they were. And you have to look at that, also … just so you understand, that was done under Obama's administration."<\/i><\/p>\n

Trump added: "And as far as the Ukraine is concerned, it's a mess. And that's under the Obama's administration with his strong ties to NATO. So with all of these strong ties to NATO, Ukraine is a mess. Crimea has been taken. Don't blame Donald Trump for that."'<\/i><\/p>\n

Ladies and Gentlemen, the GOP Candidate for US President and Leader of the Free World.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nDonald Trump said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin won’t make a military move into Ukraine — even though Putin already has done just that, seizing the country’s Crimean Peninsula.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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'Donald Trump said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin won't make a military move into Ukraine — even though Putin already has done just that, seizing the country's Crimean Peninsula. "He's not going into Ukraine, OK, just so you understand. He's not going to go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down. 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