“You can take it anywhere you want”, Trump said in an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on “This Week”. Stephanoploulos said in response, referring to Crimea.
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Trump said he had been unaware of the platform change, though he had heard about it ex post facto.
Trump also addressed remarks he made recently suggesting that he would “look into” recognizing Russia’s annexation of Crimea and lifting the sanctions subsequently imposed on Russian Federation.
No, just so you understand, he said very nice things about me.
“But I think laying out the facts raises serious issues about Russian interference in our elections, in our democracy”, she responded. And that’s under the Obama’s administration with his strong ties to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
“And as far as the Ukraine is concerned, it’s a mess”.
“I’m gonna take a look at it”, Trump told ABC’s This Week. “I believe we have put together an agenda to increase jobs, increase incomes, make our economy grow and be more fair, which is going to appeal to a majority of Americans”, she said.
Asked if she believed Putin wanted Trump in the White House, Clinton said she was not going to jump to that conclusion.
Okay. Now. Let us not dismiss this as Trump carrying out Putin’s party line and instead acknowledge that, yes, historically, Crimea was part of Russian Federation, and was given to Ukraine under Khrushchev, and that many (but not all) in Crimea did, and do, more strongly identify with Russian Federation than with Ukraine.
“For Trump to both encourage that and to praise Putin despite what appears to be a deliberate effort to try to affect the election I think raises national security issues”, she said.
On only his third visit to an European Union nation this year, Putin attended the centenary commemoration of a chapel in the Julian Alps that was erected in honor of over 100 Russian and other World War I prisoners of war who died in an avalanche while building a winding mountain road for their Austrian army captors in 1915.
But Steven Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian studies at Princeton and New York University, credits Trump for homing in on issues that are ripe for discussion.
In the 2012 presidential campaign, the dynamic over Russian Federation was switched: Republican nominee Mitt Romney then criticized Obama for being too accommodating toward Russian Federation.
Donald Trump humiliated himself on national television.
Trump said it would be a “great thing” if the United States got along with Russian Federation and if Russian Federation would help fight the Islamic State group.
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Chollet said Trump’s accommodating attitude toward Putin, his “gut impulse” policymaking, his idea of making a “game-day decision” about whether to honor North Atlantic Treaty Organisation promises, and the lack of specifics about how he’d achieve his goals are what make him so risky. The former DNC chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, said Mr Sander’s campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, was a “damn liar” and that they planned to call Mr Sanders an atheist to discredit him among voters in the southern states.
