It’s too late to change the Trump campaign’s Russian Federation policy, and there’s no point trying to deny it. Trump and Manafort should just admit what their staffers did and defend the action on its merits, if they can. WSJ?s Jason Bellini has #TheShortAnswer.
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As for Putin’s foray into Ukraine, Trump said, “He’s not going into Ukraine, Okay, just so you understand”.
Trump has since tried to explain that he understood Russian Federation was “already in Crimea” but shifted the blame on to the Barack Obama administration and reiterated that if Trump were elected, he would keep Russian Federation out of Ukraine. In an interview with ABC on Sunday, Trump confirmed that his people were behind the change. He’s not gonna go into Ukraine, all right? You can make it down. You can put it down.
Putin already steamrolled into the country and annexed the Crimean Peninsula back in 2014.
“Already in Crimea!” Trump tweeted Monday, referring to Russian forces.
Former CIA Director Michael Hayden became the latest heavyweight in the George W. Bush administration to lash out at Trump when he criticized the candidate Monday night for making conflicting statements about his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In doing so, she was implicitly rebuking Trump, who has questioned the need for the Western alliance and suggested that if he is elected president, the United States might not honor its North Atlantic Treaty Organisation military commitments, in particular regarding former Soviet republics in the Baltics.
“Ukraine is a problem, and we should help them, but let Germany and other countries over there that are directly affected – let them work it”, Trump said.
“But I’m not there”. That would be a major shift in USA foreign policy, and Trump’s campaign officials are coming out to clarify the candidate’s position.
‘But if we can have a good relationship with Russian Federation, and if Russian Federation would help us get rid of ISIS, frankly, as far as I’m concerned you’re talking about tremendous amounts of money and lives and everything else’. In the meantime, he’s going away. “He takes Crimea”, the Republican nominee added.
“I mean he treats me… with great respect”.
He also said that the Republican platform regarding the issue of the Ukrainian-Russian policy should be eased.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump face off in the general election.
When an interviewer noted that Trump had claimed he was being sarcastic, Clinton replied: “If you take the encouragement that Russians hack into email accounts, if you take his quite excessive praise for Putin, his absolute allegiance to a lot of Russian wish-list foreign policy issues”, it suggests that “he is not temperamentally fit to be president and commander-in-chief”. It’s already falling. You go into our airports, you go look at our bridges, you look at our roadways, we’re becoming a third-world country.
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In the past, Trump has boasted of knowing and communicating with Putin. At a time when Russian Federation as abrogated arms control treaties and its planes are buzzing United States ships in the Baltic Sea, Trump has praised Putin as a canny leader who he respects.
