Fox News Edits Out Trump Saying He Might've Let Russia 'Take Over' Parts of Ukraine

[Nevilledog]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-edits-out-donald-trump-saying-he-mightve-let-russia-take-over-parts-of-ukraine

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Donald Trump has long insisted that the Ukraine war would have never happened if he were still president, going so far as to blame the “rigged election” on Russia’s unprovoked invasion while claiming he had the magic words to stop the fighting “immediately.”

During a radio interview with Fox News host (and longtime confidant) Sean Hannity on Monday, the twice-impeached ex-president finally revealed how he personally would have prevented the war. According to Trump, all he needed to do was let Russia “take over” parts of Ukraine.

Saying that Russia was going for the “whole enchilada” with Joe Biden as president, Trump added that Russia “took over nothing” while he was in the White House because Russian President Vladimir Putin “understood” that “he would have never done it.

The former president then added: “That’s without even negotiating a deal. I could have negotiated. At worst, I could’ve made a deal to take over something, there are certain areas that are Russian-speaking areas, frankly, but you could’ve worked a deal.”

Later that evening, Hannity played excerpts of his “exclusive” interview with Trump on his primetime Fox News program, along with highlights of Trump’s bombastic speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Though Hannity aired the segment featuring the ex-president boasting that he could have stopped the war, he curiously omitted the portion where Trump revealed his plan.

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[RockRaven]

1. If you showed FUX viewers the real entire clip, they would tell you that it was a deep fake

generated off of the "exclusive" that FUX aired. They are totally impervious to anything they don't want to hear.

[mucifer]

4. Lots of fox viewers love putin

[Mariana]

8. They love Putin because Trump loves Putin.

[oldsoftie]

13. Exactly. If he HATED Putin they would too

[Justice matters.]

2. So just because "certain areas are Russian-speaking areas"

his puppetmaster, putler has the right to take over all the natural ressources in those "areas" and pocket the profits like he doesn't have enough wealth yet (or "had"?).

So that's the "deal" uh? Never mind the historic frontier borders...

And build a wall?

[getagrip_already]

9. They are only "mostly" russian speaking because they displaced all the native ukranians....

Another term for that is ethin cleansing.

The results of a crime doesn't become an excuse for ownership.

[Justice matters.]

10. Besides, Russian and Ukrainian languages are very close, a bit like English-speaking

in the United Kingdom and the United States.

Different in some ways but it's not a reason to kill civilians (babies, women, pregnant women, and everyone else include) for them.

Carbon ressources and rare-earth materials aren't valid reasons too.

I like the reply about Swiss and France below.

[DFW]

3. Someone should ask Trump if it's OK if France invaded its neighbors

After all, there are French-speaking areas of Switzerland and Belgium. I’m sure Trump could peacefully negotiate the territory grab, right?

I’d love to see Trump ask ANY resident of the French-speaking cantons of Switzerland if they would rather be part of France. It would be like the Marcel Marceau scene in “Silent Movie.”

Trump: Wouldn’t you rather be part of France?

Swiss: NON!!!

Hannity: What did they say?

Trump: I don’t know. I don’t speak French.

[gratuitous]

12. Or if Mexico wanted to take back Texas?

Perhaps there are carefully drawn exceptions to the Trump Doctrine.

[DFW]

15. To trump, carefully drawn exceptions are....

Anything he takes exception to

[Liberal In Texas]

5. Fox dishonestly edits video and in this case apparently audio. They've been doing it for years.

It's the way of the propaganda merchants.

If that madman ever gets back into power, he'll end US participation in NATO and probably help Putin put the old USSR back in place.

[tanyev]

6. Yeah, the magic words being "Give Putin whatever he wants."

[Marcuse]

7. Certain areas in the USA are Spanish speaking.

[getagrip_already]

11. So we should invade all english speaking countries then?

After all, we have a right to that land.

[republianmushroom]

14. Fox news still censoring the news their viewer can see,

while protecting trump.