Trump has kept in touch with more foreign leaders than Putin since leaving office

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

72% : Asked about these relationships during a podcast interview, Trump said, "The tougher they were, the better I did with them," adding that it was a good thing he got along with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
70% : Trump has hosted foreign leaders at both of his homes, including recently having British Prime Minister Keir Starmer for dinner and hosting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the first time in five years.
68% : After the first assassination attempt, foreign leaders quickly moved to offer Trump their well wishes.
63% : Trump continued.
59% : "While speaking at a rally this week, Trump defended his dialogue with hostile leaders and said it was effective for delivering progress from intractable situations.
51% : Trump and Polish President Andrzej Duda sat down in New York in April as the visiting leader sought to underscore the urgency of Washington's support for Ukraine.
50% : "In a statement, Trump's campaign said foreign leaders see Trump poised to return to office and want to ensure their ties to him are strong.
47% : On Truth Social, Trump posted a letter he received from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
46% : At his Manhattan and Mar-a-Lago homes, foreign delegations from Israel and Ukraine have sat opposite Trump and his campaign staff as if holding a bilateral meeting -- then shared remarks before a bank of news cameras, a set-up that evokes some of the trappings of a state visit.
45% : A new account details his purported communication with Putin, who, according to journalist Bob Woodward's forthcoming book, "War," Trump spoke to since leaving office "maybe as many as seven" times, including earlier this year when, the book details, a senior aide said they were left to loiter outside of his Mar-a-Lago office after Trump allegedly shooed them out of the room.
43% : The book also details an apparent gift of COVID-19 testing equipment that Trump reportedly gave Putin during the pandemic, a claim the Kremlin says is true.
38% : In office, Trump reveled in his one-on-one interactions with other leaders and argued while speaking at a rally Wednesday that having an open dialogue helped bring hostile adversaries to scale.
36% : But Putin is not the only foreign leader Trump is talking to.
36% : Trump has hosted Netanyahu and his wife Sara, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, and David Cameron, when the former British prime minister was serving as the U.K.'s foreign secretary.
33% : At the Republican National Convention this summer, foreign officials courted Trump and his allies with abandon.
32% : For years, Trump has argued how he would put an end to the war in Ukraine -- a point that Democratic Party critics say would require complete surrender to Russia -- and return American journalist Evan Gershkovich even before being sworn back into office.
29% : "Keith Kellogg, a foreign policy adviser to Trump who would likely be considered for a cabinet role should the Republican win, said he advises officials searching for insight to simply pick up the phone and get Trump on the line.
24% : (Trump's campaign has emphasized that any discussion of who Trump may appoint in a second term is not final.)
24% : Trump has denied any wrongdoing.
23% : Staying tapped into foreign policy allows Trump to argue that he could easily slide back into office, but it also carries risk for the Republican nominee, who faced criticism while he was in office for his close to Russia and complaints about how talkative he was with other leaders.
19% : Trump called the reporting "wrong" in a Newsmax interview Tuesday.
18% : "Katulis was referring to the trove of classified documents Trump kept from his time in office that have become the subject of a criminal case, many of them about his communications with foreign leaders.
18% : "Biden, he said, 'Oh, that's a tough situation in North Korea,'" said Trump, drawing a contrast with his successor and adding that for him, it was "no problem.
15% : Trump has denounced the account as "wrong.
13% : Trump's insistence that he could have gotten Gershkovich released drew skepticism earlier this year, particularly because U.S. law prohibits civilians from engaging in foreign policy without the government's permission, and there had been no indication that Trump was communicating with the Biden administration's blessing.

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