Fox News caught editing Trump’s boast that he would let Putin “take over” parts of Ukraine

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Fox News was caught editing former President Donald Trump’s boast that he would have negotiated an end to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by allowing the Kremlin to “take over” parts of the country.

Trump said in a Monday radio interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity that Russia “took nothing” while he was in office but was going for the “whole enchilada” with President Joe Biden in the White House. Trump said that if he were still in office, Russian President Vladimir Putin “would never do this.”

“That’s without even negotiating a deal. I could have negotiated,” he said. “At worst, I can make a deal to cover something, there are some places that are Russian-speaking places, actually, but you can make a deal.”

But when Hannity aired his “exclusive” conversation with the former president on his Fox News show that night, Trump’s comment about allowing Putin to “take over” parts of Ukraine was edited out, which flagged by The Daily Beast.

“I could have negotiated,” Trump said in the clip, before the video fast-forwarded to another part of the interview where Trump complained about China.

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The clips aired on Fox News also did not include Trump’s conspiracy theory that “far more people are dying than are being reported” in Ukraine while repeating that it “wouldn’t have happened” if he were still in office.

The former president also said in an interview with the Right Side Broadcasting Network that peace “can be negotiated in 24 hours” by saying “things” that will “guarantee that this war will end immediately.”

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