President Donald Trump hinted World War III could ‘very easily’ erupt and would prove to be ‘a war like no other’ with catastrophic nuclear weapons if peace talks over Ukraine failed.
The US president issued the stark warning on Friday night, while revealing ceasefire talks between Russia and Ukraine are progressing – but devastation could yet be unleashed if the two nations cannot agree peace terms.
Speaking to the Justice Department he said: ‘I think we have it, I think we have it, but this could lead to World War III, very easily, could very easily lead to World War III.
‘But I think we’re in pretty good shape, a lot better than where we were before we got involved.
‘That was heading into World War III territory, that would’ve been a war like no other because of nuclear weapons, and other types of weapons that you don’t even wanna know about.’
Claiming much of the progress had been made since he became president, Trump went on to say that he had been speaking with the Russian premier ‘to get the war over’.
He said: ‘I think we’re doing well with Russia, we’re speaking with President Putin, we want to get the war over.’
Trump also told his audience that ‘maybe’ $350billion had been sent to Europe – a figure that analysts believe to be higher than accurate – and that he was on the pathway to a deal where he would be ‘getting that back’.
President Donald Trump hinted World War III could ‘very easily’ erupt and would prove to be ‘a war like no other’ with catastrophic nuclear weapons if peace talks over Ukraine failed
The US president issued the stark warning on Friday night, while revealing ceasefire talks between Russia and Ukraine are progressing – but catastrophe could yet be unleashed if the two nations cannot agree peace terms
Trump’s comments come as Russia continues to pound Ukraine. Pictured: The rubble of destroyed buildings in the frontline city of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region
He added: ‘We’ve had some very good calls today with Russia, and with Ukraine, they’ve agreed to a ceasefire if we can get it with Russia. And it’s not easy. It’s a tough one.’
The US President continued to claim that at one point ‘there would have been no war had I been president. It just 100 per cent would not have happened.’
His comments come as Trump announced earlier today a ‘proud new chapter’ of the Justice Department that would end the ‘weaponization’ of government in a rambling speech that revisited his old wounds and allowed him to gloat.
‘We are turning the page on four long years of corruption, weaponization and surrender to violent criminals and we are restoring fair, equal and impartial justice under the law,’ Trump said, standing before the seal of the Department of Justice.
But the main point of his speech was to declare victory over his political rivals and the federal officials who tried to prosecute him.
It was yet another setting for him to repeat his complaints about the cases against him and to mock his vanquished rival, Joe Biden.
Trump described the federal cases against him as ‘bulls***,’ admitting he was breaking a promise to wife Melania Trump in using the word.
‘I will not use a bad word. I promised my wife I would never use a bad word,’ he said before going on to use an expletive: ‘The case against me was bulls***.’
From the campaign onwards, Trump has demonstrated his interest in having control over the department and which investigations it pursues.
The visit is the first by Trump and the first by any president in a decade.
The last president to visit the department was Barack Obama, who attended then Attorney General Eric Holder’s departure ceremony.
