Jeanine Pirro went ballistic on her Fox News co-host Geraldo Rivera on Tuesday for suggesting that Russian President Vladimir Putin manipulated Donald Trump to further Russian objectives.
During a debate on “The Five,” Pirro suggested Putin didn’t invade Ukraine under Trump’s leadership because he was afraid of Trump. She also called Biden a “wuss” and declared him “responsible for the decline of the West.”
“How do you know that Putin wasn’t playing Trump?” Rivera asked his colleague, sending her into a tailspin.
“Oh, stop!” Pirro shouted. “He didn’t invade when Trump was president. It’s not about loving Trump. It’s about the fact that Trump had everybody against the wall.
“I don’t give a damn what Putin thinks. I only care what Putin did. And he was a wuss when Trump was president, and that’s the end of it!”
Justin Baragona on X (formerly Twitter): “Jeanine Pirro says that Biden is a “wuss,” “is responsible for the decline of the west” and that he’s “destroying the west.”After Geraldo asks how she knows “Putin wasn’t playing Trump,” she absolutely loses it.”Trump had everybody against the wall… [Putin] was a wuss!” pic.twitter.com/ddTLVy4AK0 / X”
Jeanine Pirro says that Biden is a “wuss,” “is responsible for the decline of the west” and that he’s “destroying the west.”After Geraldo asks how she knows “Putin wasn’t playing Trump,” she absolutely loses it.”Trump had everybody against the wall… [Putin] was a wuss!” pic.twitter.com/ddTLVy4AK0
Trump and many of his allies in conservative media have been pushing the idea that Putin would not have invaded Ukraine under Trump due to what they perceive as his “strength.” Right-wing commentators have repeatedly blamed President Joe Biden for Putin’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine and have cast him as weak as the U.S. treads carefully to avoid a NATO conflict with Russia that could ultimately trigger in a nuclear war.
Earlier in the segment, co-host Jesse Watters recalled “when Trump threatened to nuke everybody,” praising him for keeping things “relatively stable on the world stage.”
“Biden’s approach is so conventional,” Watters complained.
During an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity last week, Trump said that if he were president, he would be boasting about U.S. nuclear capabilities and saying things like “we don’t want to wipe out Russia.”
Eric Trump told Hannity on Monday that Putin didn’t invade Ukraine during his father’s administration because “Putin was in with the KGB, he can read people, and he could tell that Donald Trump was a very strong person.”
