<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; font-family: TNYAdobeCaslonPro, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Courtesy of the <i>New Yorker</i> at:</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; font-family: TNYAdobeCaslonPro, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-fears-putin-is-too-distracted-by-ukraine-to-help-him-with-2024-campaign">https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-fears-putin-is-too-distracted-by-ukraine-to-help-him-with-2024-campaign</a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; font-family: TNYAdobeCaslonPro, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none;">—————————————————</span></p><h1 data-testid="ContentHeaderHed" class="BaseWrap-sc-TURhJ BaseText-fFzBQt ContentHeaderHed-kpvpFG eTiIvU fHXNkq klOfMA" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 44.20000076293945px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; --type-token: consumptionEditorial.hed-standard; font-family: IrvinHeadingWeb, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.130090495492055em; font-weight: 400; overflow-wrap: normal; transition-property: color, background, text-shadow; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease-in-out; cursor: unset; grid-column-start: 1; grid-column-end: span 8; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Trump Fears Putin Is Too Distracted by Ukraine to Help Him with 2024 Campaign</h1><div><br></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; font-family: TNYAdobeCaslonPro, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">PALM BEACH (<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report" data-uri="ad590b1f995f8441e559e6d657f7d00b" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; --color__token-name: colors.interactive.base.light; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); transition: color 200ms ease 0s; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: underline;">The Borowitz Report</a>)—In what appears to be a rift between two long-standing political partners, Donald J. Trump has blasted Vladimir Putin for being “too distracted” by the situation in Ukraine to help him with his 2024 campaign for President.</p><p class="paywall" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: TNYAdobeCaslonPro, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">“He gave a long speech the other night, and was going on and on about Ukraine and didn’t mention me once,” Trump said. “This should never be allowed to happen in this country.”</p><p class="paywall" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: TNYAdobeCaslonPro, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Calling Putin “too low-energy” to deal with Ukraine and the 2024 U.S. election at the same time, Trump said that his erstwhile ally had “priorities that are very, very bad.”</p><p class="paywall" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: TNYAdobeCaslonPro, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">“He’s spending all his time spreading disinformation about Ukraine when he could be spreading disinformation about Sleepy Joe Biden,” Trump said. “Quite frankly, Vladimir Putin is a disgrace.”</p><p class="paywall" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: TNYAdobeCaslonPro, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Trump revealed that he had called the Russian President several times in recent days but that his calls went straight to voice mail.</p><p class="paywall" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: TNYAdobeCaslonPro, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">“When I was President, I could’ve spent all my time invading Canada, but I always took his calls,” Trump said.</p></div>—————————————————<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.MoscowCares.net</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. Stolworthy</div><div></div></div></body></html>