He also took aim at his opponent, Kamala Harris, describing her as "third rate", "incompetent" and "a radical left lunatic" Donald Trump has suggested he could have prevented the war in Ukraine thanks to his relationship with Vladmir Putin, during an interview with Elon Musk marred by technical issues. Trump blamed current US President Joe Biden for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which Musk did not dispute. Instead, he said: “You’ve made an excellent point.
” “I got along with Putin very well, and he respected me,” Trump said, adding that he often spoke with Putin about Ukraine. He claimed he tried to discourage Putin from taking action – “I told him, ‘Don’t do it. You can’t do it, Vladimir.
He said ‘No way’, and I said ‘Way’.” The two-hour interview on Musk’s platform X/Twitter was delayed by approximately 40 minutes due to technical difficulties. Musk blamed the glitch on a distributed denial-of-service attack, where a server or network is flooded with traffic in an attempt to shut it down.
His claim could not be verified and X didn’t respond to Reuters’ requests for details or evidence of the alleged cyberattack. We tested the system with 8 million concurrent listeners earlier today https://t.co/ymqGBFEJX0 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 13, 2024 The pair frequently praised each other, with Musk lauding Trump’s bravery after last month’s assassination attempt and Trump complimenting Musk’s willingness to fire workers demanding bet.