Former President Donald Trump warned Tuesday that World Battle III may erupt over Ukraine or Taiwan — and stated Russian President Vladimir Putin’s risk of unleashing nuclear weapons made this “a really unhealthy and really harmful time.”
Throughout an look on 77 WABC radio, Trump was requested by host John Catsimatidis what issues “hold you up at evening.”
“I believe greater than anything, I believe we may find yourself in World Battle III and it may very well be all the horrible issues that occurred in Ukraine,” he stated.
“Appears to be like prefer it’s going to occur in China with Taiwan, as you recognize, and also you see what’s happening over there.”
Trump additionally alluded to Putin’s speech final week by which he vowed to “use all of the means at our disposal to guard Russia and our folks.”
“I believe we’re on the most harmful time possibly in, in lots of, a few years — possibly ever — due to the ability of nuclear,” Trump stated.
“For a significant nation that’s equal with us on nuclear energy to be throwing across the phrase cavalierly, like nuclear, is, is a really unhealthy time. A really unhealthy time for this nation and a really unhealthy and a really harmful time for the world.”
Trump additionally agreed with Catsimatidis’ suggestion that if he had been nonetheless president, Putin wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine earlier this yr.
“I received together with him very nicely. I spoke to him. I understood him,” Trump stated of the Russian chief. “He understood me, most likely. However I understood him nicely, and he would have by no means accomplished it.”
With out mentioning President Biden by title through the 20-minute, prerecorded interview, Trump additionally blasted final yr’s botched US withdrawal from Afghanistan earlier than launching right into a collection of assaults.
“Lots of issues don’t make sense,” he stated.
“Inflation doesn’t make sense. Completely pointless. That was brought on by oil. That was brought on by power costs. Now it’s brought on by every little thing. Now it’s past that.”
Trump additionally stated that “open borders don’t make sense,” including, “Now we have thousands and thousands of individuals pouring into our nation.”
“We don't know the place they’re from and lots of of them come from prisons from a lot of different nations,” he stated.
“They’re prisoners and so they’re, they’re hardened, harmful folks.”
After Catsimatidis introduced up the topic of fentanyl — which helped gas a report 107,622 overdose deaths in 2021 — Trump stated, “I believe what’s occurred is the quantity is lots increased than that.”
“I believe it’s 250,000,” he stated.
“And that doesn’t embrace all of the households which might be simply completely destroyed due to the medication pouring via the southern border.”
Trump added that “the one method you’re going to cease it's to have [the] demise penalty for drug sellers.”
“When you take a look at nations the place they've — like China, they've the demise penalty — they haven't any drug downside,” he stated.
“Singapore, they've the demise penalty. They haven't any drug downside. You’re by no means gonna cease medication except you've got the demise penalty.”
Trump additionally stated that New York Metropolis “just isn't the identical place” it was as a consequence of rising crime, saying persons are “afraid to go to a restaurant. Ladies are afraid to placed on jewellery as a result of it’s going to be stolen proper off their necks.”
“I've so many mates that don’t need to go there anymore. And so they’re leaving New York,” he advised Catsimatidis, the billionaire proprietor of the Gristedes grocery store chain.
“You’re saying you’re one of many folks which might be staying however persons are leaving New York by the tens of hundreds. And you've got plenty of rich folks leaving New York and so they’re those that give it the cash in order that it may well perform.”
At one other level, Trump stated he hoped that “there’ll be a time once we could be proud as an alternative of simply being speaking about how unhealthy issues are.”
“However our nation has by no means been in a worse place than it's proper now. And simply take a look at the inventory market,” he stated.
“Inform your listeners to take take a look at their 401Ks, that are down in some circumstances 50% from what they had been two years in the past. So, you recognize, it’s, it’s very unhappy to see what’s taking place to our nation.”
Trump additionally lashed out at state Legal professional Basic Letitia James — who final week filed a $250 million civil fraud swimsuit towards him and his three eldest youngsters — calling her a “catastrophe” and blaming her for surging crime throughout the state.
“She spends years going after me that she stated, oh, I possibly misrepresented to banks, which frankly, I didn’t,” he stated.
“And within the meantime, we've got murderers happening, strolling down the road. It’s simply horrible. She’s a horror present. She’s so unhealthy. She doesn’t care about violent crime. She doesn’t care about something besides making an attempt to make use of Trump’s title to get elected.”
James’ workplace didn’t instantly return a request for remark.
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