What did Trump say? "With Putin, I said, ‘If you go into Ukraine, I'm going to bomb the s--- out of Moscow. I'm telling you I have no choice," Trump said on the tape. "And then [Putin] goes, like, ‘I don't believe you.

The Republican leader referred to his conversation with Putin and Xi while arguing he would have staved off the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza if he were president instead of Joe Biden. He had been repeating his claim as he now struggles to end both the wars.

President Trump told donors during a closed-door fundraiser last year that he warned Russian President Vladimir Putin about bombing “the s— out of” Moscow if the Kremlin moved to invade