I have no problem with Trump saying something like this, and I've been critical of him in the past for any number of things. He was elected because he's not a career politician, and he has every right to dump on this country's methods of conducting its affairs in the past.
Do you think it was OK for the government (under Democrats) to practically annihilate the American Indians? Do you think it was OK for the Democrats to create the KKK as the thug arm of their party?
Not to worry, while I HATE Trump has taken a beating relentlessly due to the Pravda media you are spot on correct in this account. Be mindful however there will be dozens of apologists to tell you how what you heard really wasn’t what you heard.
The cowardly Ass. Press didn’t seem to care when Obonzo was traveling all over the world, bowing down to and kissing the asses of the heads of other country’s governments and saying this.
Imagine if the president of the US called Putin a murderous thug. What would the press have said? What would Hillary, Kerry, and crew have said?
A continuing breath of fresh air. Thx DJT. Obviously you love your country enough to be honest with it! I can think if a couple of people that the clintons had killed just so they would keep their mouths shut.
“Some Freepers will defend anything Trump says, but it is disgraceful for an American president to run down his own country like this.”
Aww did the never-trumper get the panties in a wad because Trump told the truth?
America has killed a ton of people in our endless wars. We don’t mass murder people like totalitarians. We also have killed 50 million babies in our own land.
Andrew Brietbart, Seth Rich, Ron Brown, Vince Foster
get real
He should have asked her for the details of her claim. Called her fake news out, instead of saying we do it too. He really needs to master the art of debate, i.e. Deliberate thought.
Tell that to Huey Long and Seth Rich.
The Clintons have killed more people than Putin.
Pray America woke
Despite the continual and almost scripted line from establishment politicians parroted over amd iver that “ a Putin is a thug” I have never seen Putin’s body count of personally ordered hits on journalists and opposition political figures
Care to share a definitive factual source?
Then we can compare his record to that of suspicious “politically expedient” deaths in other situations, some closer to home
Trump said just a little of what all of his liberal enemies believe about this country. They believe the US is evil and praised obama’s apology tour. Trump wants to make America great again. How can they condemn Trump’s statement about Putin when it’s nowhere near as bad as the haters have said and believe?
‘US isn’t ‘so innocent’
Of course it isn’t! “O” spent his entire two administrations running around the world apologizing and kissing every ones’ a(*, just to prove it :)
Well, there are 6 million Muslims in the U.S. And President Trump is right, we need better relations with Putin, for he may be an ally in war against the Muslims.
One possible misspeak, everyone knows President Trump loves this country with all his heart. That was not so with Obama.
Defend our support of what was essentially the sacking of a sovereign nation by a private army of murderers with the assistance of NATO air power. Defend Libya and at least I will find you to be consistent.
Kermit Gosnell comes to mind.
Some FReepers have even tried to deny Putin’s penchant for political murders to me because they have such a big crush on the guy. It’s pretty surreal.
Yes, there are lots of bad guys in the world. In realpolitik, you sometimes have to choose between them. It never means forever, is always conditional, and it changes as conditions change. Alliances of convenience are the norm in statecraft, not the exception. Some of our “allies” in NATO are just that type of allies. They know it, and we know it.