Ex-Congressman: Trump isn’t Putin’s puppet

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00:00Now, the truth of the matter is, if you take any single point, and you will discover that

00:06the reason that Putin didn't move an inch under Donald Trump was because at every point

00:12that he started to, Trump thumped him repeatedly, not the least of which was the pipeline, in

00:20which he cancelled the pipeline.

00:21Well, that cut off his finances, and so he couldn't go to war.

00:26Once Biden came in, Germany started paying them over $100 million, the EU paid $130 million

00:36a month for energy.

00:38That finances his war against Ukraine.

00:40So in all of these things, we can go on and on with other examples, that in the process,

00:47the friendship, the ease with which Putin has operated under the Democrats is significantly

00:53more open than it was under Putin, than it was under Trump.

00:56Trump was very forceful against Putin, Putin knows it and respects it, and so this idea

01:01that somehow or another he's a Putin puppet is belied by any single reference, economic,

01:08military or political.