Donald Trump boasts it's a 'great compliment' that Putin prefers Joe Biden
Donald Trump has boasted Vladimir Putin's backing of "more predictable" Joe Biden is a "great compliment."
The former president was at a campaign rally in North Charleston on Wednesday when he reacted to Putin's comments which said “Biden, he's more experienced, more predictable, he's a politician of the old formation."
However, It didn't take long for Trump to hit back at Putin's compliment of Biden as he replied to the rally: “He just said that he would much rather have Joe Biden as president than Trump. Now that's a compliment. A lot of people said, ‘Oh, gee, that's too bad.’ No, no, that's a good thing. And of course, he would say that.”
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Trump responded to Putin's praise for Biden (Getty Images)The former president said it was clear why Putin would prefer Biden’s victory because he put a break on Russia’s interest while he was president, which included the construction of Nord Stream 2, a controversial German-Russian pipeline, which would have carried natural gas from Russia to Europe.
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“I stopped Nord Stream 2, and [Biden] approved it right after I left, so Putin is not a fan of mine actually,” Trump said. “He doesn't want to have me. He wants Biden because he's going to be given everything he wants, including Ukraine,” Trump claimed of Putin and Biden’s relationship.
“He's gonna have his dream of getting Ukraine because of Biden … The only president in the last five that hasn't given Russia anything is a president known as Donald J. Trump.”
Putin said Biden is "more experienced" than Trump (Getty Images)The comments were rare praise for Biden, a fierce critic of the Russian leader who has frequently lauded Trump. At a campaign rally Wednesday night, Trump appeared to embrace Putin’s criticism, saying: “Putin is not a fan of mine.”
And Putin did refer to his disagreements with Biden. “I believe that the position of the current administration is badly flawed and wrong, and I have told President Biden about that,” he said.
Putin has claimed that he sent troops into Ukraine to protect Russian speakers there and to prevent a threat to Russia’s security posed by Ukraine’s bid to join the NATO alliance. Ukraine and its Western allies have denounced Moscow’s action as an unprovoked act of aggression. Several NATO countries, chief among them the U.S. under Biden’s leadership, have sent Kyiv weapons and other military aid to fend off Russia’s attack.
Trump, meanwhile, recently called into question U.S. funding for Ukraine and said he once warned he would allow Russia to do whatever it wants to NATO member nations that are “delinquent” in investing in their own defence. Those comments sent shock waves through Europe, where some leaders are preparing for a time when the U.S. does not play the pivotal role in NATO that it does now.
Trump’s statement sharply contrasted with Biden’s pledge “to defend every inch of NATO territory.” Biden accused Trump on Tuesday of having “bowed down to a Russian dictator.”
In the interview, Putin described NATO as a “U.S. foreign policy tool,” adding that “if the U.S. thinks that it no longer needs this tool it’s up to it to decide.”
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