"I’m not looking to hurt Russia. I love the Russian people, and always had a very good relationship with President Putin - and this despite the Radical Left’s Russia, Russia, Russia HOAX," Trump said in a Truth Social post.
Trump pointed out that the United States should not forget that Russia "helped" it win the Second World War and lost "almost 60,000,000 lives in the process." The official Soviet death toll from WWII is about 27 million.