U.S. President Donald Trump talked up his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity following a summit between the two world leaders.
Trump and Putin met on Friday in Alaska to discuss Russia’s ongoing war with Ukraine. The meeting failed to produce a ceasefire agreement.
“If you had to grade it on a scale of one to 10?” Hannity asked Trump of the summit on his show Friday night.
“So I think the meeting was a 10 in the sense we got along great,” the president responded. “And it’s good when, you know, two big powers get along, especially when they’re nuclear powers.”
Hannity also asked Trump what the “vibe” was after the two presidents’ planes first landed in Alaska.
“Well, you know I always had a great relationship with President Putin, and we would have done great things together,” Trump replied, touting Russia’s “incredible” land with “the rare earth, the oil, gas, everything.”
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He added that he and Putin were “stopped” from doing “a lot of great things” by what he called the “Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Trump reiterated his dubious assertions that the 2020 presidential election, which he lost to Joe Biden, was rigged. This time, he claimed that Putin agreed with him, and that the Russian president said war never would have broken out if Trump had been in office.
“It was very interesting because we talked about 2020,” Trump stated. “He said, You won that election by so much, and that’s how he got it. He said, ‘and if you would have won, we wouldn’t have had a war.’”