You said a couple weeks ago that Trump would have ‘given away Ukraine’ and Russia ‘would have already been in Kiev by now.’ Can you expand upon that?

I just don’t think he cared about it.

It’s hard for me to describe how little he knows. And that sort of thing colors everything about my impressions of him and the people who agree with him. When you’re operating on such a poor understanding of the circumstances you’re talking about, ultimately, your opinions have to be totally unsound. And ultimately reality triumphs, and these opinions are seen for the flimsy and twisted thoughts that they really are.

How do you think Trump would have responded if he’d been in office when Putin invaded Ukraine?

Well, I’m not sure he would have done much of anything, frankly. But you never know with Trump. It depends on what time of day it is, it depends on what he thought his political benefit would be at any given moment. I don’t think ultimately he would have stood in Putin’s way. [Sarcastically]: He never got that server! Those Ukrainians wouldn’t give him the server!