Trump Asked About Pressuring Russia To Accept Ceasefire: 'I Hope It's Not Going To Be Necessary'

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During a press briefing on Wednesday, President Trump was asked about how the United States can pressure Russia into accepting a ceasefire with Ukraine.

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00:00It is is massive

00:04Will you hear this one

00:15We can but I hope it's not going to be necessary sure we can pressure we can do that with Russia remember this

00:23Russia

00:25took Georgia

00:26From Bush, right?

00:28they took

00:30Crimea from a

00:32Man named Obama Barack Hussein Obama, right?

00:35They're trying to take the whole thing from Biden. They're going for the whole ball of wax

00:40Who is the only one that never took anything from Trump?

00:43And in fact, I'm the one that stopped Nord Stream to the pipeline the biggest pipeline anywhere in the world

00:49I stopped it. It was dead and then Biden got in and he approved it. Nobody mentions that

00:55What I did to Russia was very tough

00:58I was the toughest ever but nope, they never took anything from me. They took them from Obama and Bush and they took it from

01:07sleepy Joe Biden

01:09With Biden they wanted to take the whole country, but I think I've stopped that but we'll see

01:13But yeah, there are things you could do that that wouldn't be pleasant in a financial sense. I can do things financially

01:20That would be very bad for us. I don't want to do that because I want to get peace

01:23I want to see peace and we'll see but in a financial sense. Yeah, we could do things very bad for Russia

01:30It would be devastating for Russia

01:31But I don't want to do that because I want to see peace and we're getting close to maybe getting something done. We've got

01:39Ukraine done and as you as you know, I've always said that Ukraine might have been the more difficult

01:44Party you saw you were here a week ago when?

01:47Some interesting things happened. I had somebody that didn't seem to want peace

01:51Now he's agreed to peace so we'll see what happens

Trump Asked About Pressuring Russia To Accept Ceasefire: 'I Hope It's Not Going To Be Necessary'

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