Trump told golfer John Daly that he threatened Putin with 'hitting Moscow'
Business InsiderAUG 2022
Trump Claims He Threatened Putin With 'Hitting Moscow'
The Spin
Pro-Trump narrative
There's no scandal here. Trump's comments to Daly are perfectly in keeping with the public comments he made at CPAC just last week. Trump's strong leadership was an effective deterrent against Russian and Chinese aggression. The same cannot be said of Biden, NATO, and the diminished West.
Left narrative
Trump's tough talk comes just after his own National Security advisor, John Bolton, revealed that Putin was just biding his time until a second Trump term, when the former president intended to withdraw the US from NATO, an organization that Trump constantly sought to undermine.