During a wide-ranging interview at the Economic Club of Chicago on Tuesday, Donald Trump suggested he had, in fact, talked to Vladimir Putin since leaving office, made false claims about Jan. 6 and called tariffs “the most beautiful word in the dictionary.”
“Can you say, yes or no, whether you have talked to Vladimir Putin since you stopped being president?” asked Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait during his live sit-down with the former president.
“Well, I don’t comment on that,” Trump said. “But I will tell you that, if I did, it’s a smart thing. If I’m friendly with people, if I have a relationship with people, that’s a good thing, not a bad thing.”