BUCK: Here’s Biden, just as a little flashback, folks, ’cause you can see the reality now, and Russia became more than a foreign policy issue under Trump because it was part of the soft-coup attempt from the Democrat apparatus to come together with, whether it was deep state elements in the intelligence community, Democrat-aligned media — and of course Hillary’s campaign, the DNC — to create this whole Russia fabrication.

Then they had this hysteria around Putin. And so it became an applause line among Democrats who honestly know nothing about foreign policy, never mind Russia, to just talk tough about Putin all the time. This was Biden back in 2019 assuring everybody, oh, he was gonna stand up to him. Play clip 7.

BIDEN: Once again, Putin and the Russians are trying to engage in our elections and decide who the president is gonna be. And this time I’m the object of their — of their attention because Putin knows if I am president of the United States, his days of tyranny and trying to intimidate the United States and those in Eastern Europe are over. I’m gonna stand up to him. He’s a bully, just like the president. And I know he doesn’t want me to be president, but I’ll tell you what: When I’m president, things are gonna change. Mr. Putin, the American people decide their elections, not you.

Once again, Putin and the Russians are interfering in the elections and trying to pick our president — this time they’re coming after me.

Chip in $5 to send the message to Putin that the American people decide elections, not him: https://t.co/6ehaYAjgxA pic.twitter.com/o1GTKnizUY

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 23, 2019

CLAY: What an embarrassment. That’s a great, fantastic clip for our crew to have pulled. And we asked Trump about the tweet, essentially, saying something similar that Joe Biden put out, which was “Putin’s afraid of me,” essentially. Remember that’s what Biden tried to argue and, frankly, far too many people in the media and the chattering classes were willing to accept that as a reality when the truth is — beyond a shadow of a doubt — Putin does not respect Biden, and all you have to do is look at what he’s doing right now in Ukraine as perfect evidence of that fact.

BUCK: It’s remarkable how much the reality that Democrats were fed for four years, specifically about Russia and foreign policy. They said that there was gonna be a war with North Korea because of Trump. There was going to be nuclear proliferation because of Trump stepping out of the Iran nuclear deal. And of course, with Russia they said that he was an agent of Russia, which is for crazy people, essentially.

This became absurd. But they were clinging to it. And now we see that when you have people, whether it’s on covid and masks… People in this country have been brainwashed by the Democrat apparatus on covid. They were brainwashed on the realities of Russia. Look, Putin, he’s a rough dude. There’s no question. He’s a bad guy, he’s a dictator, and he is aggressive, and he’s a threat to his neighbors. That all said, how do you handle him?

Going back to our interview with Trump, he was saying, you want to get along with Russia where you can, how you can, because then you actually have better leverage to push back without having to have guns blazing literally and figuratively.

So this is a situation I think where a lot of people are waking up to they were lied to about Russia Trump obviously for four years, but also the role of Russia on the world stage and whether Biden would be… Who is afraid of Joe Biden? I don’t think anybody is afraid of Joe Biden. Maybe people that are worried he’s gonna come up behind them and sniff too closely to their ear; they might be afraid of Joe Biden.

CLAY: Well, also, you don’t know that Biden is even making the decisions inside of his White House. Right? That is one of the biggest challenges I think out there. You knew ultimately that Trump was the decider in his White House. Whether you agreed or disagreed with that decision, Vladimir Putin had to respect the fact that Trump was the decider.

Does anyone out there listening to us right now feel like Joe Biden is the decider in his White House? I don’t think that he is. I bet most of you don’t think that he is, either. And, frankly, I’m not sure that he has the cognitive mental strength to even be the decider, and that’s only going to get progressively worse the more time he spends in office.