The Truth About Ukraine: Donald Trump says "The Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries in the world." (Circa 2019, TRANSCRIPT and link of 2 minute video clip )

YOUTUBE ^ | December 1, 2022 | President Trump

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ransomnote: The video excerpt (transcript below) is undated, was recorded when President Trump was in office, and is likely from 2019. The video was uploaded to YOUTUBE on Dec 1, 2022.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZaNqkKGt8aA

TRANSCRIPT of video clip:

Why are we the only ones that give the big money to the Ukraine?

We give money to Ukraine, and it’s bothered me from Day 1; and you have plenty of people, just here;  I say, "how come it’s always the United States that gets ripped?"

Frankly, Ukraine, we wanna help them.

What I was having a problem with are two things.

Number 1, Ukraine is known  (audience:  Zelensky?) –before him, for tremendous corruption. Tremendous, more than just about any country in the world. In fact, they are rated one of the most corrupt countries in the world. And I don’t like giving money to a country that’s that corrupt.

Number 2, I hate being the country that’s always giving money when Ukraine helps Europe and the European countries far more than they help us, but I don’t like to be the sucker, and European countries are helped far more than we are, and those countries should pay more to help the Ukraine. ~ President Trump

END OF TRANSCRIPT

ransomnote: Biden has already given the Ukraine $67 Billion dollars and is proposing to send another $40 Billion. Trump wouldn't do it while in office - he made the exposure of the Biden/democrat corruption in the Ukraine a condition of military aid. Biden will never stop giving our wealth to protect the Deep State crime hub in the Ukraine.

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Related links on FR:

The Economist quotes the Urkainian head of the armed forces who indicates he doesn't expect to get the resources he needs to defeat or defend against the Russians

Support for Zelensky/Ukraine is support for Biden/Deep State

Aid to Ukraine Explained in Six Charts ($68 billion to date with another $37 billion Biden just promised)

General Zaluzhny, Ukraine at a fork in the road (TRANSCRIPT and link to 40 minute YOUTUBE video, my notes)

Related Internet link (opposition research):

"After President Trump’s illegal Ukraine aid freeze scheme was exposed, he has claimed that he froze the aid out of a desire to fight corruption. That is a myth. There is no evidence that he cares about fighting corruption in Ukraine or anywhere else."  ~Senator Leahy, Vice Chairman, Senate Appropriations

 

[tlozo]

- there's no point in giving money to corrupt organizations or people.

Right so when nazis invaded Poland, should everyone first have checked the corruption level of Poland? Moronic. Let me explain this like to a child, corruption/theft is bad, invading countries in Europe for genocide and annexation is an evil on a much grander scale that makes any existing corruption a non issue.

[Saintgermain]

The Truth About Ukraine: Donald Trump says “The Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries in the world.” (Circa 2019, TRANSCRIPT and link of 2 minute video clip )

And the US is hell bent on keeping it this way.

[BobL]

Looks like the liberation of Donbass is starting to pick up momentum, so this crap may end sooner than later.

[BobL]

“Waiting for the neocon troll BS.
He’s a Pooty Putin Puffer!
Dirty Ruzzian Orc
He hates America!
Why is Trump fellating Putin?”

They are kind of in a bind, how can they attack Trump here without giving away their HATRED towards Trump?

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There’s some indication Brandon is planning to send AMerican troops to ‘help’. :(
A few weeks ago, Colonel MacGregor reported that an advance team from the US was in the Ukraine. The staffing and location suggested they were the type of team sent to foreign locations to secure resources needed for the arrival of troops.
I just got another link from someone saying something similar so I’ll go watch.

I believe we do have military contractors (Americans) in the Ukraine already. When we give the Ukraine American or Western arms with which the Ukrainians are not familiar, we also contribute the expertise needed to operate them. So I don’t have numbers or hard evidence, I have heard military people saying the Ukrainians don’t know how to operate our equipement and that Contractors are ‘said’ to be there, arriving with the equipment. The explanation given is that it’s similar to an Android vs. iPhone difference in operating systems - the Ukrainians know old Soviet technology better than they know modern American arms systems.

[jpp113]

If Patriots are sent there, there will be American troops operating them. The training just takes way too long to just hand them off to the Ukes.

[BobL]

“So I don’t have numbers or hard evidence, I have heard military people saying the Ukrainians don’t know how to operate our equipement and that Contractors are ‘said’ to be there, arriving with the equipment.”

Agree, and I’ve also heard that our military has programs for ‘retiring’ soldiers so that they can be temporary contractors, and then taking them back when that work is over.

They don’t disclose that information publicly, for obvious reasons, but they much prefer to have very recently retired soldiers (as in ‘retired’ the prior week or so) operating their hardware, than taking their chances with someone who retired 10 years ago and thus isn’t familiar with the changes and upgrades of the current systems for the past decade.

That’s why Putin said that the Patriots were fair game if they got deployed in Ukraine, as he obviously knows they’ll be operated by hundreds of Westerners, of not Americans.

[lodi90]

They are selling some of the weapons to countries and organizations (e.g., ISIS) which have a hard time getting weapons donations from the US.

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Actually, it’s Russia’s ally Death to America Iran that does that. They killed over 500 Americans in Iraq and now Iranian weapons kill Ukrainians. Personally, I wouldn’t want to be confederating with such America hating filth but whatever floats your boat.

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In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled The Truth About Ukraine: Donald Trump says "The Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries in the world." (Circa 2019, TRANSCRIPT and link of 2 minute video clip ), lodi90 wrote:

They are selling some of the weapons to countries and organizations (e.g., ISIS) which have a hard time getting weapons donations from the US.

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Actually, it’s Russia’s ally Death to America Iran that does that. They killed over 500 Americans in Iraq and now Iranian weapons kill Ukrainians. Personally, I wouldn’t want to be confederating with such America hating filth but whatever floats your boat.

What a pathetic accusation. I post a thread quoting Donald Trump's comments about the Ukraine, and point out to pro-Ukraine supporters that the Ukraine has sold donated weapons to organizations like ISIS, and you respond by claiming I am confederating with Iran. That's so weak I wonder why you bothered to type it. Welp, I guess that was the best snark you were capable of composing.