NEW: Trump slams Russian invasion of Ukraine as 'crime against humanity'
"The problem with Putin is he's got a very big ego," Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity.
"If he ends now, it's going to look like a big loss for him, even if he takes a little extra territory. ... I got along with these people. I got along with them well. That doesn't mean they are good people," Trump continued. "It doesn't mean anything other than the fact that I understood them and perhaps they understood me. Maybe they understood me even better, that's OK, because they knew there’d be a big penalty," added Trump — who maintained the invasion would never have happened if he were still president.
Bolton said his former boss made it "that much easier" for Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine by spreading conspiracy theories during the 2020 elections about
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