Hello and welcome to the Byron York Show, the no-chit-chat podcast.

We'd like to get right into it.

What we're going to get right into today is Donald Trump, and the question is, is it time

for him to pipe down about Ukraine?

The former president has lent his voice to the public debate over President Biden's

handling of Ukraine.

Now by doing that, Trump has kind of flouted a tradition, which was mostly adhered to

by Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.

This tradition of former president is staying mostly quiet or expressing support when the

sitting president navigated a foreign policy crisis.

Now one president who's not on that list is Jimmy Carter, who did not observe that unwritten

rule during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, the man who defeated him in 1980.

In that sense, what Trump is doing now is playing a role kind of similar to what Jimmy

Carter did in the 1980s, if Carter had had Trump's flair, which he did not.

But anyway, there is this kind of idea that a president stays keeps quiet during a foreign

policy crisis.

But Trump, on the other hand, is not just discussing the Ukraine crisis.

He has added another dimension to the debate.

He is using the crisis in Ukraine to argue, as he never fails to do, that the 2020 presidential

election, which he lost to Joe Biden, was rigged.

Indeed, Trump is arguing that the current Ukraine crisis would not have happened but for

the rigged election.

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