Trump's "Bomb" Threats To Foreign Leaders Revealed In Audio

Newly revealed audio shows Donald Trump claiming to donors that he threatened to bomb Moscow if Vladimir Putin attacked Ukraine.

Trump said he gave similar warnings to Putin and Xi over a potential invasion of Taiwan. I Photo: The White House Facebook

Journalists Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, and Isaac Arnsdorf obtained audio tapes recorded at fundraisers last year, as Trump campaigned for re-election in Florida and New York.

CNN aired excerpts of the recordings as the reporters promoted their new book, “2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America,” Travis Gettys reported for Raw Story.

“With Putin, I said, ‘If you go into Ukraine, I’m going to bomb the s--- out of Moscow,’” Trump told donors.

“‘I’m telling you, I have no choice,’ and then [Putin] goes, like, ‘I don’t believe you.’ But he believed me 10%.” Trump said he gave a similar warning to Chinese President Xi Jinping over a potential invasion of Taiwan, claiming he told Xi that the U.S. would bomb Beijing in response.

“He thought I was crazy,” Trump said, adding, “but we never had a problem.”

The audio recordings reveal an even more unfiltered side of Trump’s persona as he appealed to wealthy donors by threatening to deport student protesters and criticizing welfare recipients.

“One thing I’d do is any student that protests—I would throw them out of the country,” Trump said at a closed-door fundraiser, referring to pro-Palestinian demonstrations on college campuses.

“Those people made a big mistake. Throw them out of the country, and I think that will stop it."

He added: “If you get me elected, we will set that movement back 25 to 30 years.” Trump also boasted about pressuring a billionaire donor to give him a larger campaign contribution.

“He wants to have lunch with me over a million dollars,” Trump said.

“I said, ‘You’re worth $5 [billion] or $6 billion, you’re talking about a million dollars, and I’ve got to have lunch? I’m not having lunch. You’ve got to make it $25 million.’ And he said, ‘Oh, that sounds like a lot,’ and he did it. He gave me $25 million. It’s crazy.”