In a Sunday social media publish, Trump wrote that he’d “at all times had an excellent relationship” with Putin — with whom he’s making an attempt to dealer peace over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — however claimed “one thing has occurred to him” after Russia launched an enormous, new weekend assault on its neighbor.
Hume dismissed the notion that Putin’s conduct had modified.
Trump “has at all times had a really odd conception of Vladimir Putin,” Hume mentioned. “I feel he’s thought that he and Putin could possibly be sort of associates and companions, and will make offers collectively.” Trump has for years talked about his admiration for his counterpart.
“I don’t know what the president’s speaking about,” Hume continued. “That is the best way Putin has at all times been. He’s at all times been a very brutal dictator, keen to take no matter measures he thought essential to advance his curiosity, no matter he thought he may get away with.”
Hume added: “He’s the identical outdated Vladimir Putin.”
Maybe Trump had skilled “an actual second of reality” in regards to the Russian chief, mentioned Hume, who urged Trump to behave accordingly, probably by leveraging U.S. navy or financial may — together with rising arms to Ukraine — to assist “flip the tide” of the battle, which he promised throughout his 2024 marketing campaign to finish on his very first day again within the White Home, however has up to now didn’t do.
Watch Hume’s feedback right here:
