The notion that Russia hawks concerned about Russian influence should support the candidate Russia is trying to get elected, and oppose the candidate Russia is using every tool at its disposal to defeat, is beyond freakish. He would be better off just owning it.
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“When I said in an interview that Putin is ‘not going into Ukraine, you can mark it down, ‘ I am saying if I am President”. Chuck Todd pressed. “No one, zero”, Manafort said.
“And we know that Donald Trump has shown a very troubling willingness to back up Putin, to support Putin”, the Democratic nominee continued. Although the platform is not pro-Russia, Trump supporters succeeded in preventing a reference to arming Ukraine from being added. On the other hand, Hewitt would probably laud Trump for giving work opportunities to African-Americans, and explain to his audience that Trump had only forgotten to pay them, an understandable oversight for such a busyman. “In terms of leadership, [Putin]’s getting an A”, Trump said in a past interview. It was no worse than the second-most-damaging thing Trump said onSunday.
On the topic of Putin and Ukraine, The Donald said: ‘He’s not going into Ukraine, OK, just so you understand.
“It absolutely did not come from the campaign”. Several of his campaign staff are financially dependent on Russian Federation.
This all comes after his outburst on Thursday, when he threatened (or was it sarcasm?) violence: “I mean, the things that were said about me”.
‘And it’s yet more proof why Donald Trump is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be commander in chief’. “You can put it down”.
He also said Putin was “not going to go into Ukraine”, prompting a rebuke from Clinton adviser Jake Sullivan.
The United Nations also does not want countries to recognise Crimea as part of Russia and some top Republicans staunchly defend Crimea against what they consider Russian aggression. A month before that, he called on Germany to take the lead on the issue.
He added, “wouldn’t it be nice if we teamed up with Russian Federation and others, including surrounding states and maybe North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and we knocked the hell out of ISIS (IS) and got rid of these people?” But then the billionaire bigot was twisted enough to compare himself to parents who lost a child. The Kremlin has denied its involvement in the unrest despite the reported the use of heavy Russian artillery by eastern Ukrainian rebels. Campaign sources told me that mostly, Manafort was acting out of habit.
Trump went on to say that he has “made a lot of sacrifices”.
The Republican nominee later said he was being “sarcastic” in his comments. The campaign later admitted that multiple sentences had, in fact, been appropriated from Obama’s remarks by a staffer. We know this because he’s even expressed personal admiration for Vladimir Putin.
Under a Donald Trump presidency, that position might change. His campaign manager, Paul Manafort, helped the Kremlin’s efforts to manipulate the outcome of Ukraine’s election. And Trump’s sympathetic attitude toward Putin looks less politically viable as more evidence emerges about the Russian government’s involvement in the hacking of the Democratic National Committee and other US political institutions. Today, he gamely repeated Putin’s argument that Russian Federation was justified in seizing the sovereign territory of another country by force.
In a TV interview, US presidential candidate Donald Trump said that, if elected, he would consider recognizing Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula.
When asked by Stephanopoulos why the GOP softened its platform on Ukraine, Trump responded that he “wasn’t involved with that”. President George W. Bush grew closer to Putin on counterterrorism issues immediately after the 9/11 attacks. It was condemned by the United States and its European allies, which all issued sanctions. One them just denied that Russian Federation seized Crimea.
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Manafort’s comments contradict reporting by the Washington Post’s Josh Rogin.
