In what appears to be a reluctant capitulation towards human decency, Donald Trump said on Monday that while he admires Vladimir Putin, he certainly would never kill journalists, as the Russian president allegedly does. I would never kill them, yet I do hate them.
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“That’s not killing by the United States government though”.
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“Some of them are such lying, disgusting people, it’s true”, Trump continued, repeating he “would never kill them”.
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She was also known for being critical of Ramzan Kadyrov, the president of Russia’s Chechen Republic, who is a key Putin ally in the troubled North Caucasus region.
George Bush may have had a sense of his soul, and Barack Obama may have wanted a reset, but Donald Trump wants you to take Vladimir Putin at his word.
Like MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough before him, Stephanopoulos on Sunday asked Trump about Putin’s status as a strongman, including allegations that the Kremlin has been involved in orchestrating the deaths of political opponents and journalists.
Trump opined that Putin had not “stood with a gun or taken the blame or admitted that he’s killed”.
So after praising Putin, and, with a vaudevillian show of charity, dismissing the idea of killing journalists, Trump concluded the “media commentary” portion of the evening by questioning the legitimacy of serious claims of oppression and violence against journalists in Russian Federation. “But you’re making these accusations and I don’t – I don’t see any proof”.
Trump said even if Islamic State videos did surface of his calling for a temporary halt to Muslims entering the country, he would not change his position.
Since Trump’s declaration of support for Putin last week, former Romney aides and campaign strategists have been coming out of the woodwork, slamming Trump for his support of the controversial Russian president. “You know we’re a poor nation – we’re a debtor nation”.
“If he has killed reporters, I think that’s awful”.
“So, I’m a deal-maker”, Trump said.
President Vladimir Putin said he will protect Russians living in southeastern Ukraine from what he described as being “eaten up” by Ukrainian “nationalists”, according to an interview broadcast Sunday.
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John McCain isn’t the only GOP politician who is unsettled by the growing intimacy between Trump and Putin.
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“We have such incompetent leadership that we’re going all over the place”, Trump said during a WABC interview.
