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Donald Trump: “There's a war that wouldn't have happened if I were…”

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Published | Video Starts at 11:44

Can you tell us what you hope to get out of that and whether you consider inviting President Zelensky to join? So you have to understand, this is a war that should have never happened. There's a war that wouldn't have happened if I were president. It would have never happened. Wasn't it was the apple of his eye, got along very well with President Putin. But if you look under President Bush, they took a lot of territory. (11:44–11:47)

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Asserts that the war in Ukraine would not have occurred if he were president.

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