“In a Trump administration, our Christian heritage will be cherished, protected, defended like you’ve never seen before”, Trump said to a rousing ovation.
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His comments drew fire from other Republicans, who.
Campaigning for Clinton at the Democratic convention in July, Obama praised Reagan’s belief in American exceptionalism.
House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan – the top elected Republican official who has frequently broken with Trump – again took a sharply different view from that of his party’s candidate.
Both Republicans were responding to Trump’s praise of Putin’s 82 percent approval rating during last night’s forum on NBC.
Putin doesn’t have a good image in the United States, either.
Critics of the network, which mostly targets audiences outside Russian Federation, have described it as a propaganda arm of Putin’s government.
“When he calls me brilliant, I’ll take the compliment”, Trump said during a televised town hall meeting Wednesday.
What achievements of Putins does Trump admire?
The Trump campaign says that it was unaware that the show would also be shown on the Russian channel.
Putin biographer Steven Lee Myers writes: “Russia’s critics – and certainly the White House – would dispute Putin’s accomplishments, noting the corrupted, kleptocratic economy and a stunted political system that has marginalised genuine opposition, at times violently”.
But in the wake of Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, suspicion of Russian involvement in the downing of a Malaysian Airlines flight over Ukraine and subsequent sanctions, U.S. -Russia relations subsequently deteriorated.
The billionaire has put a new focus on Russian Federation during his campaign and wants to improve relations between Russian Federation and the United States.
In July, Trump went as far as saying he hoped Russian Federation had hacked Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s private email servers, which she used while serving as secretary of state.
Nina Khrushcheva, a professor of global studies and associate dean at the New School, noted a shared characteristic in the two men: that of a tough authoritarian leader, or put another way, a schoolyard tough refusing to back down from a fight (an image Putin himself has used to describe his childhood).
The Trump-Putin bromance of sorts has even become a meme. Trump has praised Putin for his leadership skills on numerous occasions, an affinity that Democrats have tried to construe as weak and not in the national interest.
“We don’t play games”, he said in a memo to Federal Bureau of Investigation agents some of whom were reportedly sharply critical of the decision not to charge Clinton despite finding her “extremely careless” in handling the nation’s secrets as America’s top diplomat.
Trump doesn’t lie like a rug; he lies like a Russian agent.
Other Republicans also came to Trump’s defense.
Maybe Trump would be happy running for president of Russian Federation.
Earlier on Friday, US Secretary of State John Kerry said that the United States is prepared to do what is needed to work with allies to defend against a growing threat from North Korea. “Who knows”, Trump told King.
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What struck me was that everyone’s talking about all of this praise for Putin.
