Reporter Asks Trump Point Blank About His Tariff Threat To Putin: 'What Was The Tipping Point?

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During a press conference on Monday, President Donald Trump was asked about his threat to impose tariffs on Russia if a peace deal with Ukraine is not reached in 50 days.

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00:00yes thank you mr president what was the tipping point for you in making this decision was it a

00:04conversation with president putin was a piece of intelligence and why are you giving 50 more days

00:09i think well i think it's a very short period of time i think don't forget i've just really

00:14been involved in this but not very long and uh and it wasn't initial focus this is again this

00:20is a biden war this is a democrat war not a republican or trump war this is a war that

00:25would have never happened it shouldn't have happened a lot of people being killed when

00:29the uh when the final numbers come in you're going to see a lot more people have been killed in this

00:35war than than you think than you've been writing about it's a very deadly war very they're all bad

00:41but this is a very deadly war very the numbers are going to be far greater when an apartment house

00:45comes down and they say two people were slightly injured no many people were killed and those

00:52numbers will be at some point accurately reported so far they're not it's a deadly war uh i think

00:59that uh you're just going to see i think you're going to see strong movement i hope so i hope so

01:04you know the uh secondary tariffs are very very powerful

01:08you

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