The WaPo's fact checker Glenn Kessler looks at the Putin-loving Malignant Loser's recent lies that he was the savior of and best thing NATO ever had. Here's his lede:
"Only days ago, Trump lauded Russian President Vladimir Putin as 'very savvy' for making a 'genius' move by declaring two regions of eastern Ukraine as independent states and dispatching Russian armed forces to seize them. 'Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful,'Trump said Feb. 22 on the 'Clay Travis and Buck Sexton' show, referring to the troops as 'the strongest peace force I’ve ever seen.'
Of course, it turns out that Putin launched an invasion of all of Ukraine. With Ukraine putting up a gallant fight and the United States and its allies imposing harsh sanctions on Russia, Trump on Monday issued a defensive statement repeating falsehoods he regularly made during his presidency.
With Trump, it’s hard to know if he’s willfully ignorant or if he has simply swallowed his own spin. Far from being a savior of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, he frequently sought to undermine it." (our emphasis)
The rest of Kessler's article debunks each claim made by the Malignant Loser, who repeatedly tried to undermine NATO, even to leave NATO, and was stopped (by their accounting) by the efforts of his advisors, including John "Yosemite Sam" Bolton and Gen. John Kelly.
(photo: It's all about body language. Trump's Helsinki humiliation at Putin's hands. AP)
