Trump just admitted he’s a Russian tool: He’s enabled ‘slaughter, rape, torture and kidnap’

The Russian election conspiracy of 2015 is a hoax, Donald Trump has told Americans and the rest of the world for a decade.

Nonetheless, he and Russian President Vladimir Putin are best buddies, and Putin, that rascal intent on world domination, would do whatever Trump asks on the sheer force of Trump’s personality.

And that’s why Trump insisted (lied) during the campaign that he could end Russia’s war against Ukraine with a single phone call, certainly within 24 hours, and maybe more like this [insert finger snap].

It’s also why Trump maintains that Putin never would have started the war had Trump been in office — the same war, of course, that Trump can’t get Putin to stop. If that doesn’t make sense to you, you’re not alone.

Because here we are more than three months after Trump’s inauguration, and Putin is still lobbing missiles and sending drones into Ukraine to kill and destroy — after laughing at Trump’s butt-kissing envoy, Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s attempts to negotiate peace, and Trump’s “I’m really mad” declaration over the weekend.

On Tuesday, Trump warned Putin that he’s “playing with fire” by ignoring his wanna-be dictator pal in the White House. And the world laughed.

“What Vladimir Putin doesn’t realize is that if it weren’t for me, lots of really bad things would have already happened to Russia, and I mean REALLY BAD. He’s playing with fire!” Trump posted on Truth Social, his social media platform.

Note: Trump admits that he has protected Putin and Russia — a long-time American adversary who has plotted to destroy the U.S. from within while driving a wedge between America and its most trusted allies. Russia already has corrupted large swaths of the Republican party.

Adam Kinzinger, a former GOP Congressman, January 6 Committee member and lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard, posted: “Nothing sadder than a tough guy who needs to remind you he’s tough, right after admitting to shielding Russia.”

All this after Trump called Putin “absolutely crazy” on social media on Sunday — and it was the Kremlin’s turn to laugh. Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesman, said Trump’s comments were “connected to an emotional overload.”

On Sunday, the New York Times reported that Trump was considering imposing more sanctions on Russia in response to its intense recent assault on Ukraine.

Later on Sunday, Trump told reporters that Putin “is killing a lot of people, and I don’t know what the hell happened to Putin. I’ve known him a long time. Always gotten along with him. But he’s sending rockets into cities and killing people, and I don’t like it at all.”

The Russian assault came a month after Trump posted a social media warning to Putin — “Vladimir, STOP!” — which Putin ignored. It came days after Putin and Trump had a two-hour phone conversation the White House described as “excellent.” Trump boasted it would “immediately” lead to new negotiations.

Experts, who knew Putin never would stop the war, rolled their eyes. And on Tuesday, Trump’s post was greeted with more “I told you so.”

From The Lincoln Project: “There it is. Trump confirms what we’ve said all along – he’s been protecting Putin this entire time.”

Tweeted another: He “is literally confessing that without Trump‘s complicity, Putin would never have been able to slaughter, rape, torture and kidnap so many innocent Ukrainian citizens.”

From Ron Filipkowski of Meidas Touch offered sarcasm: “If Putin doesn’t watch out, Trump might be forced to go ALL CAPS on him.”

When CBS reported on Monday that Trump was angry with Putin, Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut tweeted: “How is this the headline? What is the relevance of ‘criticism’? His policy is to let Putin win. Who cares about criticism when he abandoning Ukraine?”

He added: “Trump said he would get a peace deal within 24 hours, and now is poised to lose the war. Why? Because he is the weakest U.S. president in our lifetime. He’s told Putin he can continue the war and pay ZERO price. No sanctions. No new weapons for Ukraine.”

Even the Wall Street Journal, a Rupert Murdoch-owned publication, mocked Trump: “Mr. Trump may be the only person in the world still surprised by how Mr. Putin is behaving. The Russian is the same man he’s been for two decades, bent on reconstituting as much of the old Soviet empire as he can get away with. Ukraine is his obsession.”

And Trump has tried to help him get it.

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