Trump Clashes With CNN Reporter Over Russia Sanctions and Steven Hubbard

You're going to South Carolina tonight.

You're, are, and you're campaigning for Darline Graham.

Yeah.

What has she said to you about lifting those sanctions on Russia that her brother

fought so hard for?

Well, I'll tell you, the interesting thing, as you know,

we have a gentleman

coming home from Russia that they've been after for years.

He was captured or taken during the Biden

administration. Uh, wouldn't have happened if I

were president, but he, he was

taken,

and he's a highly respected man, Mr.

Hubbard, Steven Hubbard. And we were in the midst of

negotiating, and a lot of stupid people said,

and people that

don't know how life works, they said, "Why aren't you putting Russia

sanctions on all this in the midst of a negotiation to try and get a

long-term hostage back from, uh, Russia?"

But you said you didn't give Russia anything in exchange for his release.

If I would've done that, you would not have Mr.

Hubbard coming back.

So you did give him something in exchange for the release?

Right now, right now... I mean, you don't know anything.

I mean, you're fake news CNN. Look, right now, you have a man that's

beautifully flying from Russia to wherever he's landing in the United

States that I got out because I had a very good and very

fast negotiation with President Putin.

If you would've put those sanctions on or whatever you wanna call them, uh, you

could forget about him. You'd never see him again.

He'd be back in jail for 25 years. The other thing, very important,

we're negotiating with Russia right now on Ukraine.

Uh, we are maybe close to a deal. For the first time in a long

time, we're maybe close to a deal. When you're close to a deal and you have

very delicate negotiations, you don't put sanctions on.

And the other thing, we have, uh, decimated Iran.

Russia has had very little input into Iran. They have...

Certainly, they could have done a lot more,

but I'm not sure they did almost

anything. Uh, that's something that you have to take into consideration

also. So we've beaten Iran. We continue to beat Iran,

and Russia and China, frankly, have not been certainly much of a

player, and we appreciate that. So the people that say that, "Oh,

let's put sanctions on..." You know, I have the right to do them at any day.

But you're saying you lifted the sanctions in exchange for his release, right, Mr.

President?

And they may be ahead bad, but they may be...

You don't know what you're talking about. You're a dummy.

But that's what you're saying. That's what you're saying.

You're a low IQ person. You're a dummy, and you work for CNN. Let me tell you.

If I'm negotiating to get a man back, a man that we've wanted back

for years, a man that was a prisoner in

Siberia or some place in Russia, and we're getting him back because

of me, should've been brought... It should've never happened,

but it should've been

brought back during Biden because he was there w- during the Biden. It was...

He was captured or taken during Biden.

When you're negotiating that and you're dropping, and I know that I'm

doing it, and because a lot of people didn't know,

and they say, "Oh,

let's put sanctions on Russia," the negotiation would obviously

come immediately to an end. So use your head