Donald Trump is not known for careful remarks that always reflect the truth, but there’s one subject on which he seems to veer from reality the sharpest: Russia.
The former president ended his one-term stint in the White House in January 2021 after spending four years publicly contradicting journalists, other Republicans, and even his own intelligence agencies on issues of US-Russia relations and Moscow’s campaign to influence US politics through misinformation on social media. But his warm words for Vladimir Putin and the Russian government wouldn’t end there, as the US president would frequently touch on the subject after leaving office in interviews, at campaign-style rallies, and elsewhere.
