Nevermind the death and destruction in the Ukraine….
Donald Trump is still going out of way to pat the Russian President on the back for shit he has done….
I STILL wonder what does Putin have on Trump?
When someone tells you who they are, believe them the first time. Or in the case of Donald Trump, the 10th time.
At a campaign rally in Georgia over the weekend, the former President, again, praised Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“The smartest one gets to the top,” Trump told the crowd. “That didn’t work so well recently in our country. But they ask me, ‘Is Putin smart?’ Yes, Putin was smart. And I actually thought he was going to be negotiating. I said, ‘That’s a hell of a way to negotiate, put 200,000 soldiers on the border.'”
Trump added that Putin made a “big mistake,” but that “it looked like a great negotiation.”…
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“They say, ‘Trump said Putin’s smart.’ I mean, he’s taking over a country for two dollars’ worth of sanctions,” Trump told a crowd at a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago, according to a recording of the event. “I’d say that’s pretty smart. He’s taking over a country — really a vast, vast location, a great piece of land with a lot of people, and just walking right in.”…
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Then, in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference several days later, Trump tripled down. “Yesterday reporters asked me if I thought President Putin was smart,” he said. “I said, ‘Of course, he’s smart,’ to which I was greeted with ‘Oh, that’s such a terrible thing to say.’ I like to tell them, ‘Yes, he’s smart.'”
It now seems pretty clear that Trump meant what he initially said about Putin. Because between then and now Putin has carried out a relentless and deadly attack across Ukraine. And over that same period of time, prominent Republicans have scrambled to distance themselves from Trump’s Putin praise, even scolding the former President for saying what he said.
And yet, through it all, Trump has stuck, basically, to his original line — that Putin is a savvy player on the world stage who is always one step ahead of the United States.
Don’t overthink it: Trump keeps saying it because he believes it….
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