Donald Trump said President Joe Biden “convinced” Russian President Vladimir Putin to “go to Ukraine” in a mini-campaign to a Mar-a-Lago audience over the weekend.
He falsely insisted that Biden was encouraging Putin’s aggression when he said there would be “no problem” if Putin took “some parts of Ukraine.”
Biden sought a peaceful solution to the Russian war and condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It was Trump who called Putin’s invasion “brilliant” at the time.
Trump also revealed at the Conservative Political Action Conference’s Mar-a-Lago event that he had to invite professors to the White House to explain how horrible nuclear war would be if it happened during the presidential debates.
“Power is so destructive that we will not talk about it,” he said. Trump said experts urged him: “Ladies, try your best not to talk about it… It’s so destructive, it’s so powerful. The world is going to disappear,” he added, suggesting that Biden is increasing the risk of nuclear war because he has no “brains.”
The former president, speaking from the podium, also insisted that a “The Madman” shot Capitol rebel Ashli Babbitt during the violence of January 6, 2021.
“There was no reason” for it, Trump said. “We will not allow this to continue. They are terrible people, terrible people,” he added, apparently referring to the police protecting the MPs that day. “What they did to the protesters…”
Micki Witthoeft, the mother of Ashli Babbitt, was arrested after blocking traffic during a Friday protest at the Capitol, police said. She ignored orders to move and instead “turned around with her hands behind her back and demanded to be arrested,” a Capitol Police statement said.
Ashli Babbitt, a Trump supporter, was shot by a police officer as she walked through a broken Capitol window amid a violent mob trying to reach lawmakers during the riot as part of a attempts to overturn the presidential election. (Watch the video below).
The Justice Department investigated Babbitt’s shooting and, based on the evidence, did not prosecute the Capitol Police officer who shot her.
Trump once again insisted that the Capitol rioters were just “protesting a fraudulent election,” even though there is no evidence that the vote was fraudulent.
Nearly 1,000 rioters have been arrested and charged or already convicted of multiple crimes during the January 6 uprising, including rape, theft and destruction of government property, assault and sedition.
Frequent Mar-a-Lago Visitor of Lake Kari appeared at the event with Trump. He calls himself Arizona’s “duly elected governor” for no reason, even though he lost the gubernatorial election to Democrat Katie Hobbs in November.
A columnist for the Arizona Republic wrote Saturday that while Lake might be the governor of the fantasy Neverland, Narnia, Middle Earth, Oz or Wonderland, he is certainly not the governor of Arizona.
Trump mostly stayed at Mar-a-Lago, although he announced in mid-November that he would run for president again. He is surrounded by adults at his resort, which a Trump confidant recently called a kind of “Barbie Dream House,” where Trump can still pretend to be president.
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