Subject: Ukraine, one year later
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September 19, 2024. Interview with Newsmax.

“So, hopefully, we’re going to win the election. We’re going to get it all changed. I’ll get that war settled before I even become president. I will get it settled while I’m president-elect.”


Today, September 18th, 2025:

https://www.rev.com/transcript...

We've done. The US has done seven of them. The one that I thought would be easiest would be because of my relationship with President Putin, but he's let me down. He's really let me down. It was going to be Russia and Ukraine, but we'll see how that turns out. But that turned out to be… I thought it might be among the easiest of the group, but we had settled just about every conflict. And as you know, we're working very hard on Israel and Gaza. All that's happening over there. Complex. But it's going to get done. It'll all get done. And likewise, Russia and Ukraine will get done, but it's…

You never know in war. War is a different thing. Things happen that are very opposite of what you thought. You thought you were going to have an easy time or a hard time and it turns out to be the reverse.