Posted on 10/04/2015 5:54:44 PM PDT by markomalley
Donald Trump does not trust Russian President Vladimir Putin, but he is supportive of one thing Putin is doing on the world stage.
During an interview with "Meet The Press" Sunday, Trump told moderator Chuck Todd that he supports Putin going out and "bombing the hell" out of the Islamic State in Syria, despite that they are doing so to support Syrian President Bashir al-Assad.
"I like that Putin is bombing the hell out of ISIS, and it's going to be ISIS. I'll tell you why — Putin has to get rid of ISIS because Putin doesn't want ISIS coming into Russia," said Trump, who leads the Washington Examiner's latest power rankings.
However, Trump made it clear that he does not trust the Russian president when pressed by the host.
"I don't trust him," Trump said. "I don't trust him at all — other than we both got very good ratings the other night on '60 Minutes' 'cause it was with me and Putin. Can you believe this? So I don't know. Did I get the ratings or did he?"
"It's not a question of trust," Trump said. "We've spent now — we've spent $2 trillion in Iraq, probably $1 trillion in Afghanistan. We're in there — we're destroying our country. We owe $19 trillion, we're bogged down. Russia was bogged down in Afghanistan, meaning the Soviet Union. It broke up the Soviet Union. They're going to get bogged down, you watch."
"I would sit back and lets see what's going on," Trump said. "I'm not justifying Putin, but you watch — he'll get bogged down there. He'll be there, he'll spend a fortune, he'll be begging to get out."
Dumb.
He bought Putin’s excuse.
Good grief. This is supposed to be presidential timber?
Bah, simplistic response, but one which is both accurate and inaccurate at the same item. Russia’s bombing Assad’s enemies, some of which are terrorists we support, some are terrorists we don’t support, all of which would be happy as pie to kill us.
So in the end, I too am just pleased as punch for Russia to bomb the heck out of Muslims.
so long as Putin kills off them all I support Putin and not ISIS. Shame the establishment want to ignore how ISIS is on the march and would rather ignore them.
Agreed. The establishment and the white house is all upset because ISIS and the so called moderates who also chop peoples heads off are now getting what they deserved.
The Donald is a showman after all.
Good grief. This is supposed to be presidential timber?
Have you considered the other candidates?
Other than Cruz, there is little else.
Remembering Beslan. HOORAY Putin HOORAY Trump
Obama IS Commander and Chief... YOU want Obama in charge of another ME fiasco?
We should lay low and pray we’re not destroyed in the next 400 days...
You’re buying into Putin’s scam too.
Putin is allied with every bad-guy muslim government and group that threatens the West. He’s not there to decrease the threat against Europe and the U.S. Just the opposite.
He’ll make a deal with ISIS too if it benefits him.
GO TRUMP GO!!!
I agree with Trump on this one!
Let Putin Bomb the Hell out of ISIS!
I am still dumbfounded at why we support ANY terrorists. Let them kill each other.
No, and I don't what someone dumb enough to think Putin will do anything that doesn't threaten us more either.
Putin bombing ISIS is going to draw their attention from us. Not sure how that, in itself is bad. Sure, Pooty Poot has his own motives, but anyone that bombs moslem terrorists can’t be all bad, can they?
Then they wonder why they are single digits and he is collecting the marbles.
Exactly. The vanity of The Donald knows no limits. Even in response to a serious question about a serious foreign policy situation, he just can’t help but talk about his TV ratings.
Ditto
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