Donald Trump told Fox News on Sunday that nobody’s been tougher on Russia than him. Trump came out of the gates strong in his first term, when in 2018 he sent 37 Javelin anti-tank launchers to Kyiv, with 210 of their missiles. The Javelins, while few, played a significant role when Putin tried to seize Kyiv in February-March 2022. But that was Trump 1.0, before he’d lost his reelection bid and then faced a rash of sometimes humiliating lawsuits, writes Julian Zelizer. Zelizer: It seems clear Trump feels a personal bond with Russia’s leader, and that this has strengthened since he retook the White House in 2014. He says Putin has made no secret of saying the Kremlin is no secret about its support for Ukraine, as well as the number of Russian missiles able to penetrate Ukrainian air defenses. The implication that he didn’t care, as Putin is saying, is that he doesn’t care about his own country, Zelizer says.