It is unclear when Trump allegedly warned the two leaders.
President Donald Trump allegedly told a group of campaign donors at a fundraising event last year that he had separately warned the Russian and Chinese leaders that he would bomb their capitals if they invaded their neighbors, according to a leaked audio.
The audio, published by CNN on July 8, allegedly captures Trump’s remarks at a private fundraiser during the 2024 presidential election recounting conversations he had with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese regime leader Xi Jinping.
“With Putin, I said, ‘If you go into Ukraine, I’m going to bomb the [expletive] out of Moscow. I’m telling you I have no choice,’” Trump could be heard saying, according to the audio. “And then [Putin] goes, like, ‘I don’t believe you.’ But he believed me 10 percent.”
According to the audio, Trump later added that he had conveyed a similar warning to Xi over a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan, a self-governing island that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) claims as a part of its territory.
“Then I’m with President Xi of China,” Trump said, per the audio. “I said the same thing to them. I said, you know, ‘If you go into Taiwan, I’m gonna bomb the [expletive] out of Beijing.’
“He thought I was crazy. He said, ‘Beijing!? You’re going to bomb [Beijing]?’
“I said, ‘I have no choice. I got to bomb you.’ And [Xi] didn’t believe me either. He said 10 percent. And 10 percent is all you need. In fact, 5 percent would have been okay, too.”
Trump also commented about his relationship with Xi, saying, according to the audio: “We never had a problem. We would have never had a problem.”
The audio was obtained by journalists Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, and Isaac Arnsdorf, who described the exchange in their book “2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America,” which was released earlier this week.
Trump’s alleged comments were part of several audio recordings captured during fundraising events in New York and Florida in 2024, according to CNN.
It is unclear when Trump allegedly warned Putin and Xi.
The Epoch Times could not independently verify the authenticity of the audio recordings.
By Frank Fang
