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I don't want to be a part of that.

And he was running on, we should be friends with Russia.

And this drove all of the Republicans crazy.

I mean, we should be friends with Russia.

But that was just what he was running on.

And so part of the deal of framing him for being in a conspiracy with Vladimir Putin was that he couldn't be friends with Russia anymore.

And this and so, you know, because if Donald Trump had come in in 2017 or 2018 and announced some new treaty with Vladimir Putin or some partnership or something like that, the entire media would have been like, see, that's proof.

We've been telling you he's in with when he just he went to Helsinki.

I think.

Aside from this week, I think that was the last time the two of them were face to face was in Finland in 2017.

I could be wrong about that, but I think that was the last time the two of them were together.

And there was this big thing.

I don't know if you remember this, but it was a big deal at the time was that Donald Trump said they asked him what, you know, they were like, hey, your intelligence agencies are saying that Vladimir Putin interfered in the election.

Did you ask him about that?

And Trump goes, yeah, I asked him about that.

And he told me he didn't interfere in the election.

And I believe him.

And then they made a huge thing about this on foreign soil.

Donald Trump says he believes Vladimir Putin over his own intelligence agency.

You know, the men and women who protect us every day.