Trump says Putin’s invasion plan was ‘GENIUS’

Donald Trump praised Vladimir Putin’s plan to invade Ukraine as ‘genius’ and called the Russian leader ‘very savvy’ on Tuesday, hours after he put out a statement saying Russia would have never invaded Ukraine under his watch. 

Speaking with conservative podcaster Buck Sexton, the former president said: ‘I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, “This is genius,”‘ Trump recalled. ‘Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine — of Ukraine — Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful.’

‘I said, “How smart is that?'” the former U.S. president continued. ‘And he’s gonna go in and be a peacekeeper. That’s the strongest peace force… We could use that on our southern border. That’s the strongest peace force I’ve ever seen. There were more army…