Donald Trump doesn’t believe there is enough evidence to blame pro-Russian separatists for last year’s downing of a commercial airliner over Ukraine

on: October 15, 2015

Trump was asked on MSNBC Wednesday about a new report from Dutch investigators that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down by a Russian-made rocket and warhead — and asked what he would do as president to hold Russia accountable.

“They say it wasn’t them,” he replied. “It may have been their weapon, but they didn’t use it, they didn’t fire it, they even said the other side fired it to blame them. I mean to be honest with you, you’ll probably never know for sure.”

Trump said the U.S. needs to focus on its own problems right now and not “get involved” in overseas conflicts, even one as “horrible” as this.

“I think it is horrible,” Trump said of the incident. “But they’re saying it wasn’t them. The other side says it is them. And we’re going to go through that arguing for probably for 50 years and nobody is ever going to know. There are only a few people that know. And you know one of them could be Russian President Vladimir Putin, frankly, and we know one thing: He’s not going to be talking about it.”

Trump said he does not support the U.S. retaliating for the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 attack, despite the fact that a U.S. citizen was killed in the jetliner’s crash.

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