“No one who wants to assume the responsibility of being president and commander-in-chief should be making the kind of reckless and unsafe statements and identifying with a regime that has some aggressive tendencies toward our interests, our values, our friends and allies”, she said, taking another dig at Trump.
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“This is absolutely objectionable and an American president should never have these kinds of warped views of a Russian authoritarian like Vladimir Putin”.
“America is stronger than Russia, America’s system is superior and better than Russia in every way, it’s time we had a leader who would command the respect of the world and lead on the world stage with American strength”. Miller also told the network that “Trump wouldn’t have agreed to do the interview had he known it would be aired on RT”. US intelligence agencies now have “high confidence” that the Russian government was likely involved. “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing”, Trump said during a press conference at one of his South Florida resorts.
“You know, just to be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables”. Trump said, claiming he had not heard Putin’s statement.
“If he says great things about me, I’m going to say great things about him”, Trump told NBC moderator Matt Lauer, as though he was sharing a profound understanding of grave matters. “The media has been unbelievably dishonest”, Trump responded.
Trump has expressed admiration for Putin’s authoritarian control of Russian Federation and on Wednesday, he seemed to want to give Putin a leg up in dealing with the Baltic states – former Soviet republics that are now aligned with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – by saying again that he’s not in a hurry to defend them.
During the 2012 race, GOP nominee Mitt Romney – a virulent Trump critic – warned about Russia’s growing influence and called the country the U.S.’s biggest geopolitical threat, something then mocked by Obama and Democrats as hearkening back to the Cold War and the 1950s. The two reportedly talked several times a day. Trump boasted during the NBC forum that the Russian leader has a purported 82 percent approval rating back home. “I don’t want them to feel as though they can be getting more recruits because of our politics”.
His Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, accused him of being unpatriotic.
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In 2014, Clinton said on NPR’s On Point that the reset “worked” and “succeeded”, because it was “a device to try to refocus attention on the transactional efforts that we needed to get done with the Russians”.
