President Trump set the record straight on Russia on Sunday, telling reporters before his trip to Michigan that America will not be held over a barrel by a war that never should have happened.
“Well, the only deal we made with Russia, frankly, they released oil into the world,” the President said. “They didn’t give us oil, they gave the oil to the world. And that was a very good thing.”
He pointed to a win for an American family: “We just got a man back that Biden was unable to get back… And I got him back by asking Vladimir Putin to have him back. And I gave nothing in return because Putin thought it was a reasonable request.”
Trump said the Alaska gas field and the Lukoil field are “deals that will happen at some point. But we’re not going to be hostage with the oil industry over something that, frankly, should have been settled. It should have never started.”
“Look, that war should have never started, the Ukraine-Russia war. And it wouldn’t have if the election weren’t rigged,” he said. President Trump is pressing for peace from a position of strength, and on his terms.
