TRUMP: Well, look, you know, I have my own ideas.
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Donald Trump is suggesting the US accept Russia’s annexation of Crimea if it would lead to better relations with Moscow and stronger cooperation in fighting ISIS militants.
Trump has praised Vladimir Putin in the past, stating that he was a stronger leader than President Barack Obama.
“You can mark it down”, Trump claimed. You can put it down.
“I have people come up to me all the time and say ‘Why don’t you, if you want to find out where those 30,000 emails are, why don’t you ask the Russians?”
“Well, he’s already there, isn’t he?”
The statements were significant because Mr Trump has seemingly embraced Mr Putin, repeatedly called for better ties with Russian Federation and shown an unwillingness to condemn Mr Putin for his aggressive actions against Russia’s neighbours and his crackdowns on freedoms at home. But I’m not there. You have Obama there. “And frankly that part of the world is mess, under Obama”. In the meantime, he’s going away. Trump responded when asked why his staffers worked to weaken an amendment in the G.O.P. platform about providing assistance to Ukraine, adding that he had nothing to do with the changes.
In response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine, the United States targeted members of Putin’s inner circle with economic sanctions, which were later expanded in July 2014 after pro-Russian separatists shot down a passenger plane over eastern Ukraine.
In an interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, Trump said Putin was “not going into Ukraine”. “Already in Crimea!”, Trump wrote. Trump tweeted. “So with all the Obama tough talk on Russian Federation and the Ukraine, they have already taken Crimea and continue to push”.
Trump has found himself under attack from both Democrats and Republicans for praising Putin, especially after Russia’s suspected involvement in the hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s servers.
When he was asked during an interview with ABC’s This Week whether he would support the annexation, Trump said: “I’m going to take a look at it”.
“Here’s what I think we know”, she told host Chris Wallace.
Trump had earlier unnerved NATO member nations by questioning the long absolute USA commitment to defend any member of the Atlantic alliance should it be attacked by Russian Federation. And that’s under the Obama’s administration with his strong ties to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. So with all of these strong ties to NATO, Ukraine is a mess. “He take-takes Crimea”. Moscow also sent troops into eastern Ukraine to fight alongside pro-Russian separatists as fighting began in April 2014.
“This is scary stuff”, Clinton campaign spokesman Jake Sullivan said. Does he not know that? “What else doesn’t he know?”
“Today, (Trump) gamely repeated Putin’s argument that Russian Federation was justified in seizing the sovereign territory of another country by force”. This comes on the heels of his tacit invitation to the Russians to invade our North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies in Eastern Europe.
Why is Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort denying that his staff worked to keep the Republican platform from supporting us weapons deliveries to Ukraine?
“I have no relationship with Putin”.
When Clinton described Russia’s 2011 parliamentary elections as rigged, Putin said she was “sending a signal” to his critics.
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‘I remember years ago, he said something, many years ago, he said something very nice about me. I don’t think I’ve ever met him.
