By WMAL.com
Former President Donald J. Trump delivered a speech to a roaring crowd in Commerce, GA over the weekend where he claimed it was his “personality” that kept America out of war during his time in office.
- The context: Trump was drawing the comparison between his tenure as president where the world enjoyed peace abroad and the Biden presidency, which has overseen Russia’s invasion into Ukraine creating the largest humanitarian crisis in Europe since World War II.
- What he said: And you remember this: the fake news media said my personality would get us into war. But actually, as it turned out, it was my personality that kept us the hell out of war … And it’s been accurately reported, I was the only president in four decades who did not get America into any new conflicts. Instead, I brought our troops back home from Syria, Iraq, Somalia, and many other places, and would have done it very quickly from Afghanistan, we were all set. And you know, we didn’t lose one soldier in Afghanistan for eighteen months.”
- Biden campaigned in 2020 on the fact that he would be tougher on Russia than Trump and played into the false narrative that Trump had colluded with Russia to win the presidency in 2016.
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