John Cleese blasts Trump’s claims Putin wouldn’t dare invade Ukraine under his presidency

express.co.uk:

Donald Trump has claimed in an interview that President Putin was “satisfied with a peace” during his presidency, putting the blame on what he falsely refers to as the “rigged election” for Ukraine’s troubles.

Monty Python actor John Cleese has spoken out against Trump for his controversial statements.This evening Cleese took to Twitter to blast the former US president in view of his 5.7 million followers.He wrote: “I see that Trump is claiming that Putin would not have invaded Ukraine if he's been President.

He's probably right!“If his poodle had still been President, Putin might not have needed to attack Ukraine. He'd have won already.”The actor’s tweet comes after the comments Trump made during an interview with Laura Ingraham, which showed the former president continuing to spread lies about the 2020 election.

He said: “He [Vladimir Putin] was going to be satisfied with a peace, and now he sees the weakness and the incompetence and the stupidity of this administration, and, as an American, I’m angry about it, and I’m saddened by it. “And it all happened because of a rigged election.This would have never happened.”During that same interview, Ingraham said, “We are just learning that US officials are looking at a potential amphibious landing now in Odessa, Ukraine.” Trump appeared to mistake the interviewer’s comment to mean that the United States was conducting an amphibious landing rather than Russia, as he replied: “They should do that secretly, not being doing that through the great Laura Ingraham.“They should be doing that secretly.