Donald Trump has sensationally asked Vladimir Putin to help him dig up dirt on President Joe Biden and his family. Trump’s shocking request to the Russian president comes less than one month after he spoke at a Republican fundraiser in New Orleans and suggested putting Chinese flags on US fighter jets and sending them to “bomb the [expletive] out of Russia,” adding, “And then we say, China did it, we didn’t do it, China did it, and then they start fighting with each other and we sit back and watch.”
In an interview on Just The News that aired on Tuesday, March 29th, Trump can be seen and heard asking Putin to give him any potentially damaging information he has on the reports that suggest that Elena Baturina, the wife of Moscow’s former mayor, gave $3.5 million to a company co-founded by Biden’s son, Hunter, now 52, over a decade ago. Biden’s lawyer, however, has insisted that he did not co-found the company that received the $3.5 million, and has denied that the president’s family has any stake in it.
The 75-year-old ex-president said that the Russian leader may be willing to give him the information he is seeking about the 79-year-old current president’s family because Putin is “not exactly a fan of our country.”
“Let him explain, why did the mayor of Moscow’s wife give the Bidens, both of them, $3.5 million? That’s a lot of money. She gave them $3.5 million,” Trump said in the interview. “So now I would think Putin would know the answer to that. I think he should release it. I think we should know that answer. Now, you won’t get the answer from Ukraine, but…I think Putin now would be willing to probably give that answer. I’m sure he knows.”
The White House denounced Trump's request to the Russian president, and promptly released a statement to do damage control. "What kind of American – let alone an ex-president – thinks that this is the right time to enter into a scheme with Vladimir Putin and brag about his connections to Vladimir Putin?" White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield said. "There's only one, and it's Donald Trump."
This isn’t the first time that Trump has asked Russia to help him get one over on his political opponents. Back in 2016, during his presidential campaign against Hillary Clinton, Trump infamously said that Russian hackers could help him get hold of Clinton's emails. He said at the time: "Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails."
And if you thought Trump was done with talking about Putin, then think again, as the former president was very vocal about his thoughts on the Russian leader in his explosive interview with Piers Morgan for his new talk show, Piers Morgan Uncensored. In the interview, Trump told the former Good Morning Britain host what he would say to Putin if he was still in The White House, while slamming Biden for the way he is handling the ongoing war in Ukraine; and more specifically, criticizing him for not threatening the Russian leader with a nuclear strike.
"What would you do right now in Ukraine, if you were the president?" Morgan asked, to which Trump answered: "Putin uses the 'N word.' I call it the 'N word.' He uses the 'N word,' the nuclear word all the time. That's a no-no, you're not supposed to do that. He uses it on a daily basis. And everybody's so afraid, so afraid, so afraid. And as they're afraid he uses it more and more. That's why he's doing the kind of things he's doing right now."
Trump went on to say that he thinks Putin is threatening other nations because "he thinks nobody's gonna ever attack us," and "they're all stupid." He added: "Instead of Biden saying, 'Oh, he's got nuclear weapons,' he keeps saying he's got nukes, we have better weapons that we have the greatest submarine power in history. I would say, we have far more than you do. Far, far more powerful than you. And you can't use that word ever again. You cannot use the nuclear word ever again. And if you do, we're gonna have problems."
