BBC verify last night said they researched what he said about 'ceasefire', saying that he never used the word in any of those discussions, but BBC verify said he did, in fact use it several times.
I have not heard BBC repeat that.
Why would Trump say that he does not think their needs to be a ceasefire to end the war?
Why did Trump say that if he had been President, the war would never have started? He doesn't say why. He might just be boasting. The fact is that there have been four years of Biden administration when Putin and Trump probably met many, many, times. I think he probably knows why Putin invaded Ukraine. NATO on his doorstep is a smokescreen. What he wants is Ukraine's mineral wealth, the richest ores being in the area he has taken by force, and which millions have died for.
Is mineral wealth worth the deaths of millions of people? Who would benefit from such wealth? Trump talks too much about peace and stopping the killing, but the fact is that he is supporting Putin at the moment, which he might say is a defence strategy. Did the two of them ever discuss mining in the Biden era? Trump was a nothing then, a businessman, a developer YET as soon as he became president, he immediately wanted payment for arms sent to Ukraine, in mineral ore.
Surely he must have done some ferreting out to know the rare minerals were there? How would he know unless Putin told him? Why did he do a deal for the safety of American shipping in the Black Sea. I keep going back to that, because it only makes sense if Trump was after the mining rights and he would need to export them.
Is that why he is so keen to let Putin keep the land he invaded? Has he done a deal for developing Crimea? Did Trump suggest giving back to Ukraine more of East Ukraine, but have a strip of land to and from the mining fields to Crimea?
That takes almost the whole coastline of Ukraine.