The president snapped at CNN's Kaitlin Collins on Tuesday when she first asked who had paused the shipments.
"I don't know. Why don't you tell me?" Trump said.
What a difference a day makes:
On Wednesday, he was asked if he had solved the mystery."Sir, yesterday you said that you were not sure who ordered the munitions halted to Ukraine," a reporter said. "Have you since been able to figure that out?"
"Well, I haven't thought about it, because we're looking at Ukraine right now and munitions, but I have — no, I have not gotten into it," Trump replied.
"What does it say that such a big decision could be made inside your government without you knowing?" the reporter pressed.
"I would know," Trump insisted despite his earlier claims. "If a decision was made, I will know. I'll be the first to know. In fact, most likely I'd give the order, but I haven't done that yet."
But, you know, Biden was "insular" in his last days in office. Trump, on the other hand, is...Trump?
And then there's Trump's new and improved "Madman theory:"
“With Putin, I said ‘If you go into Ukraine, I’m going to bomb the s--- out of Moscow,” Trump told donors. “‘I’m telling you I have no choice,' and then [Putin] goes, like, ‘I don’t believe you.’ But he believed me 10 percent.”
Trump later told donors he gave a similar warning to Chinese president Xi Jinping over a potential invasion of Taiwan, claiming he told the world leader the U.S. would bomb Beijing in response.
“He thought I was crazy,” Trump said, but added that “we never had a problem.”
Did Trump actually make these threats? Against two nuclear powers? Or did he just decide he did? And are we worried he did? Or that he thinks he did? Which is worse?
But let's parse Biden's "insularity" some more. Apparently there's a new book in it.....
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