Posted on 02/06/2017 2:39:43 AM PST by reaganaut1
WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump said he respects Vladimir Putin, and when an interviewer called the Russian leader "a killer," Trump said the United States has many of them.
"What do you think? Our country's so innocent?" he told Fox's Bill O'Reilly in an excerpt released by the network. The president's interview was to air Sunday afternoon on the Super Bowl pregame show.
Trump has long expressed a wish for better ties with Moscow, praised Putin and signaled that U.S.-Russia relations could be in line for a makeover, even after U.S. intelligence agencies determined that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign to help Trump win against Democrat Hillary Clinton. Putin has called Trump a "very bright and talented man."
During Putin's years in power, a number of prominent Russian opposition figures and journalists have been killed.
In the interview, Trump says, "I do respect him," and then is asked why.
"I respect a lot of people, but that doesn't mean I'm going to get along with him. He's a leader of his country. I say it's better to get along with Russia than not. And if Russia helps us in the fight against ISIS, which is a major fight, and Islamic terrorism all over the world that's a good thing," Trump said, using an acronym for the Islamic State group. "Will I get along with him? I have no idea."
O'Reilly then said about Putin: "But he's a killer, though. Putin's a killer."
Trump responded: "There are a lot of killers. We've got a lot of killers. What do you think? Our country's so innocent?"
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I am not losing any sleep over President Trump's remark, but it did not sit very well with me. But that's just me & others may disagree.
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
Dozens of Dems (and a few repubs) have called Putin a thug....and everyone applauded.
But Trump uses the word....and everyone goes nuts.
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
He will always be wrong to the left, they would call him all sorts of bad things for saying such things about Putin.
Abortion accomplishes what dictators have wet dreams about. It is an agent of global depopulation and gender gaps in China and India.
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?
Unlike Obama, I doubt that Trump would blame WWII on America or all the problems in the Middle East on Israel-especially when most of today’s Middle East problems were self inflicted when the Arabs attacked Israel in what has been known as the Seven-Day War.
And if people don’t believe our politicians don’t eliminate their opponents, then they should examine the Clintons. There are enough lives that have been ruined or mysterious deaths surrounding those two to fill books.
I thought of Seth Rich - closer to home
Among other politically expedient ( for some parties) deaths right here at home
‘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.
Do you think the US was behind 9/11?
Do you think Trump knew the Clintons were killing all of these Americans when he invited them to his third wedding?
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