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- Trump made repeated false and misleading claims about the Ukraine war during a Fox News interview.
- Trump praised Putin as "very smart" amid the stalemated and brutal fight the Russian leader ordered.
- Trump's grasp of the war's appeared spotty and an echo of Russia's propaganda.
Former President Donald Trump, the current frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination, used a Fox News interview on Tuesday to repeatedly make false and misleading claims about the war in Ukraine while offering high praise for the Russian leader and accused war criminal who launched it.