Stephanopoulos then pointed out that Putin is “already there” and noted Trump had said he’d consider recognizing Russia’s annexation of Crimea if he were elected president.
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In the real world, Trump has faced serious questions about his links to Vladimir Putin, after allegations the Russian President was actively working to sabotage Hillary Clinton’s campaign and promote Trump.
Clinton also responded Sunday to Pat Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, who was killed in the attacks on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, and who said at the Republican National Convention that Clinton “lied to me” and that she blames Clinton personally for her son’s death.
“You know, the people of Crimea, from what I’ve heard, would rather be with Russian Federation than where they were”.
Regardless of what one thinks of either Clinton or her bad judgment in this episode, inviting one of this country’s main adversaries – or any other country – to engage in cyber espionage against a fellow American is reprehensible. “And 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”. “Despite the promise of sanctions easing the bigger concern is the unpredictability of a Trump presidency when it comes to geo-politics; you simply don’t know how he would react in any given situation”.
Allen says he doesn’t think he has to justify himself to Trump, who has never spent time in Afghanistan or Iraq and has never served in the military. Clinton, however, did not appear to be convinced by that clarification.
In a freaky aside, Trump then seemed to go onto say that Putin uses racial epithets, which Trump implied meant that he didn’t respect President Barack Obama.
When he said, Russian Federation should help me try to figure out if I can get an edge or a drop on Hillary Clinton, it really was outrageous. “I respect Putin and Russians but can not believe our leader (Obama) allows them to get away with so much.Hats off to the Russians”.
“I’m going to take a look at it”, Trump said.
“(It) pays respect to the traditional friendship of Slovenia and Russian Federation, despite some differences in the two countries’ relations over their positions on certain pressing issues”, Pahor said in comments published Friday by Slovenia’s official STA news agency.
Senator Jeff Sessions, a supporter of Trump, criticized Clinton for leaving her email system vulnerable to Russian penetration and defended Trump’s comments.
Trump often speaks wistfully about smoother relations between Washington and Moscow. I have never spoken to him.
“I have no relationship with Putin”. STEPHANOPOULOS: I’m askingyou.TRUMP: – with great respect.
CLINTON: Well, Chris, here’s what I think we know.
“I didn’t meet him”.
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Trump also predicted a better U.S. -Russia relationship under his administration. I didn’t- go hiking with him.
