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Republican US presidential front-runner Donald Trump is apparently "honored" that Russian President Vladimir Putin considers the real-estate magnate a "flamboyant" and "very talented" man.
"It is always a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond," Trump said in a statement, according to Politico.
He continued: "I have always felt that Russia and the United States should be able to work well with each other towards defeating terrorism and restoring world peace, not to mention trade and all of the other benefits derived from mutual respect."
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The man has few concrete convictions, and can be swayed by the most trivial, fleeting occurrences or events.
He was interviewed earlier this week on MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ program and asked what he thought about Vladimir Putin’s glowing comments regarding him and his candidacy.
Trump was literally giddy about the fact that Putin had spoken so well of him, and constantly reminded the audience that none other than the leader of Russia had called him brilliant! He was like a school child whose teacher had given him a sticker for an especially good test result.
When he was reminded that Russia, under Putin, kills journalists and political opponents, and invades sovereign countries, his response was, word for word, ‘Our country does plenty of killing also, Joe.’
Apparently all one has to do to gain favor with Donald Trump is give him a pat on the head, and he will even turn on the country he hopes to lead.
I am speechless. This man ... calling himself a patriot and a conservative ... is sitting at 38% in the most recent national polling, with his closest rival sitting at less than half of that. And that ‘closest rival’, Ted Cruz, is the first leader to come along in thirty years who has the potential to be another Reagan, which is precisely what America needs at this watershed point in our history — either elect another Reagan or observe (if we are not too ‘otherwise occupied’) the final nail being hammered into America’s coffin, with both Islamic barbarians and our purported ‘leaders’ in D.C. gleefully wielding the hammer.