{"id":515,"date":"2025-07-09T18:02:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T18:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/?p=515"},"modified":"2025-07-10T12:30:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T12:30:24","slug":"leaked-audio-of-trump-boasting-he-would-bomb-the-s-out-of-moscow-if-putin-invaded-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/leaked-audio-of-trump-boasting-he-would-bomb-the-s-out-of-moscow-if-putin-invaded-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaked audio of Trump boasting he would \u2018bomb the s*** out of Moscow\u2019 if Putin invaded Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hear audio of Trump saying he threatened to bomb Moscow and Beijing\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_tLmZShwxDs?start=2&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a data-track=\"inline-tag-auto-link_article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> threatened <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/vladimir-putin\/\" data-track=\"inline-tag-auto-link_article\">Vladimir Putin<\/a> he would &#8216;bomb the s*** out of Moscow&#8217; if he invaded <a data-track=\"inline-tag-auto-link_article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/ukraine\/\">Ukraine<\/a>, leaked audio has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>According to the US President&#8217;s telling, a shocked Putin replied &#8216;no way&#8217; butTrump said &#8216;way&#8217; in an almost playground-style argument.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also told <a data-track=\"inline-tag-auto-link_article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/china\/\">China<\/a>&#8217;s leader Xi Jingping he would &#8216;bomb the s*** out of Beijing&#8217; if the country invaded Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks were secretly recorded at fundraising events in 2024 as he was vying to be re-elected.<\/p>\n<p>Trump claimed to potential donors: &#8216;With Putin I said, &#8220;If you go into Ukraine, I\u2019m going to bomb the s*** out of Moscow. I\u2019m telling you I have no choice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And then [Putin] goes, like, &#8220;I don\u2019t believe you.&#8221; But he believed me 10%.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Trump later says he made the exact same threat to President Xi, adding: &#8216;He thought I was crazy&#8230; we never had a problem.&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"431\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-23339188 lazyload\" alt=\"Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump Campaigns In Pennsylvania\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2182677887.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Trump made the remarks before he was elected President for the second time (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The US leader had previously spoken about a &#8216;very strong conversation with President Putin&#8217; but refused to go into any details, only saying it was enough to deter Russia from invading Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>He has continually claimed since he left office: &#8216;If I were president, this war would have never happened&#8217; &#8211; repeating it once again at the G7 summit in Canada last month.<\/p>\n<p>Trumps inflammatory comments from the campaign trail were released by CNN after it was obtained by the authors of a book called 2024, detailing Trump&#8217;s return to the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The revelations come as Trump ripped into his Russian counterpart over stalling peace negotiations with Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>He accused his Russian counterpart\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/vladimir-putin\/\">Vladimir Putin<\/a>\u00a0of <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/07\/08\/trump-complains-putins-bulls-ukraine-peace-talks-23613703\/\">providing little but \u2018bulls***\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div 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According to the US President&#8217;s telling, a shocked Putin replied &#8216;no way&#8217; butTrump said &#8216;way&#8217; in an almost playground-style argument. Trump also told China&#8217;s leader Xi Jingping he would &#8216;bomb the s*** out of Beijing&#8217; if the country invaded Taiwan. The remarks were secretly recorded at fundraising events in 2024 as he was vying to be re-elected. Trump claimed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/leaked-audio-of-trump-boasting-he-would-bomb-the-s-out-of-moscow-if-putin-invaded-ukraine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leaked audio of Trump boasting he would \u2018bomb the s*** out of Moscow\u2019 if Putin invaded Ukraine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cost-of-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}