Eric Trump thinks he knows why Putin didn’t invade Ukraine while his dad was president

“Make no mistake, nevertheless, then Russia wouldn’t have dared to annex one inch of territory if I used to be within the White Home,” Trump instructed a crowd in South Carolina over the weekend. “The truth is, they by no means did it once I was there. Lots of people ask the query, ‘how come they by no means did it when Trump was president and China?’ He mentioned they knew higher. Yeah that is true.”

“Putin was in with KGB,” Eric Trump instructed Fox’s Sean Hannity on Monday evening. “He can learn individuals and he may inform that Donald Trump was a really sturdy individual.”

First off, Eric’s remark — nearly definitely unintentionally — is an echo of what George W. Bush as soon as mentioned about Putin.

That remark was extensively mocked on the time and, clearly, with the hindsight of historical past, seems even worse.

Eric Trump’s insistence that, by some means, Putin made a psychological evaluation of his father and that is why he did not invade Ukraine can also be ripe for mockery.

Plus, take into account what we already learn about Russia and Trump — particularly that Russia actively labored to intervene within the 2016 election to assist Trump.

“First, a Russian entity carried out a social media marketing campaign that favored presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and disparaged presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Second, a Russian intelligence service carried out computer-intrusion operations towards entities, workers, and volunteers engaged on the Clinton Marketing campaign after which launched stolen paperwork. The investigation additionally recognized quite a few hyperlinks between the Russian authorities and the Trump Marketing campaign.”

Remembering these information makes Trump’s oft-repeated assertion that “nobody” was more durable than him on Russia appear laughable. And it makes Eric Trump’s insistence that Putin knew his father was “a really sturdy individual” equally humorous.