Late Friday night, minutes before deplaning in Florida for the holidays, President Trump retweeted a link to an article in which Russian President Vladi?*mir Putin defended him against impeachment.
?A total Witch Hunt!? the president tweeted at 10:30 p.m., as he shared a 36-hour-old Associated Press tweet that read: ?BREAKING: Russian President Vladimir Putin says U.S. President Donald Trump?s impeachment is far-fetched and predicts the U.S. Senate will reject it.?
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Trump?s boasting of Putin?s support comes a day after The Washington Post reported that White House advisers feared Trump?s belief that Ukraine, not Russia, was responsible for interfering with the 2016 election was spurred by conversations Trump had had with Putin.
?At the end of the day, it?s always Putin First,? wrote conservative commentator and ?Never Trumper? Bill Kristol.
?Trump wants us to know that Putin has his back. We know,? tweeted Eric Columbus, a former Justice Department appointee in the Obama administration.
?Putin is a dictator who jails opponents, kills opponents, invades neighbors, interferes in democracies? elections, etc. I don?t think an American president should be buddying with him. I wonder if Trump defenders are ever (secretly) embarrassed by this stuff. I hope so,? wrote Jay Nordlinger, a senior editor at the right-leaning National Review.
Popular Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Soloviev gave an impassioned defense of Trump on his evening show, raising his voice several times in a discussion with Atlantic Council expert Ariel Cohen.
[SUB][SUP]?At the end of the day, it?s always Putin First,? wrote conservative commentator and ?Never Trumper? Bill Kristol.
?Trump wants us to know that Putin has his back. We know,? tweeted Eric Columbus, a former Justice Department appointee in the Obama administration.
?Putin is a dictator who jails opponents, kills opponents, invades neighbors, interferes in democracies? elections, etc. I don?t think an American president should be buddying with him. I wonder if Trump defenders are ever (secretly) embarrassed by this stuff. I hope so,? wrote Jay Nordlinger, a senior editor at the right-leaning National Review.
Popular Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Soloviev gave an impassioned defense of Trump on his evening show, raising his voice several times in a discussion with Atlantic Council expert Ariel Cohen.
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