Trump on Joe Rogan's podcast
Asked for proof to back up his repeated claims that the 2020 presidential was stolen from him, Trump told Rogan: “We’ll do it another time. I would bring in papers that you would not believe, so many different papers."
Rogan pressed him for evidence. “I lost by, like, I didn’t lose,” said Trump, quickly correcting himself.
On his Cabinet picks last time “biggest mistake” of his presidency was “I picked a few people I shouldn’t have picked”.
“Neocons or bad people or disloyal people,”
“A guy like Kelly, who was a bully but a weak person,”
John Bolton is “an idiot”, but useful at times.
“He was good in a certain way,” said Trump. “He’s a nutjob.
"And everytime I had to deal with a country when they saw this whack job standing behind me they said: ‘Oh man, Trump’s going to go to war with us.’
On Putin.
“I said, ‘Vladimir, you're not going in,’” he told Rogan, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I used to talk to him all the time.
“I can't tell you what I told him, because I think it would be inappropriate, but someday he'll tell you, but he would have never gone in.”
Trump said Putin invaded Ukraine because “number one, he doesn’t respect Biden at all”.
He also said he is "completely" committed to bringing Robert F Kennedy Jr into a potential new Trump administration.
Trump said he disagrees with Kennedy on environmental policy so would instead ask the vaccine critic to "focus on health, do whatever you want".
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Trump also discusses life in space, his rival Kamala Harris, and how he urged North Korea's leader to "relax".
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