Reporter Asks Trump Why He Thinks War Wouldn't Have Happened In Light Of Putin's Intransigence

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, President Trump was asked about the intentions of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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00:00You've always said that the war never would have started if you were president.

00:04Would have never happened, and it didn't happen.

00:06And that he doesn't seem willing to do anything that you want him to do.

00:09Do you still believe that, that he wouldn't have launched the war?

00:11No, no. We would have never had a war.

00:14We would have never had a war if I were president.

00:17If the election weren't rigged, you wouldn't have had the war.

00:20You wouldn't have had the war. You wouldn't have had inflation.

00:22You wouldn't have had October 7th.

00:24That would have never happened because Iran was stone-cold broke.

00:27They didn't have any money to give to Hamas or Hezbollah.

00:30You wouldn't have had that Afghanistan most embarrassing moment in the history of our country.

00:35You wouldn't have had any of it.

00:36You wouldn't have had inflation because energy costs.

00:39Look what happened.

00:40I brought inflation down to practically zero.

00:43And all of the groceries and all of the eggs and all of the things that you've been hearing about,

00:48they're back down. They're way down from where they were.

00:51I did something in four months that nobody's seen.

00:54And I have to say, in four months, and I said it before, and everyone's talking about it all over the world,

00:59we've got the hottest country anywhere in the world right now.

01:02We're the only country anybody's even talking about.

01:05All right. Please, go ahead.

01:06What stopped you from...