Commenting the Biden-Putin summit late Wednesday, former President Donald Trump said that it only was “a good day for Russia,” as he couldn’t see “what we got out of it.”
“We didn’t get anything,” Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity. “We gave a very big stage to Russia, and we got nothing.”
“We gave up something that is unbelievably valuable. I stopped the pipeline, Nord Stream, and that pipeline was stopped. It was given back and nothing was gotten for it.”
Biden had lifted the sanctions imposed by Trump in 2019 against the Nord Stream, the company overseeing a gas pipeline linking Germany and Russia.
Speaking of Russia, Trump said that he “got along really well” with President Putin.
“I think we had a great shot at having an unbelievable relationship with Russia,” Trump said. “It could have been fantastic.”
“It could have been really beneficial to both countries. You know, they need economics and we need things that they have. They have very valuable land in terms of mineral rights and many other things, and a lot of good things could have happened.”
Trump concluded: “I had a very good relationship with Putin, but nobody treated him tougher.”
