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kennetha

(3,666 posts)
Sun Jan 15, 2017, 07:31 PM Jan 2017

Politico: Trump Eager to work with Putin

This idiot is going to turn the entire Nato alliance against him. It's one thing for candidate -- who nobody believed would ever be elected -- to talk like this. It's another thing for a President of the US to talk like this. Trump forfeits by these words any claim to be the "leader of the free world."

We're in for quite a ride until we rid ourselves of this monstrosity.


President-elect Donald Trump signaled an openness to working with Russian President Vladimir Putin on a nuclear reduction deal to ease American sanctions.

Trump's interview with the Times of London, published Sunday afternoon, comes amid ongoing questions in the U.S. in the days before his inauguration this Friday about Putin's election-related cyberattacks last year on Trump's behalf and the possibility that the president-elect's campaign was in contact with Russian intermediaries.

Although Trump's team Sunday denied a separate Times of London report that his first foreign visit was to be a summit with Putin in Reykjavik, Trump himself revealed an openness to easing sanctions on Russia that the U.S. and NATO allies have imposed in response to Russia's annexation of territory in Ukraine and Crimea.

“They have sanctions on Russia — let’s see if we can make some good deals with Russia," Trump told the Times. "For one thing, I think nuclear weapons should be way down and reduced very substantially, that’s part of it. But Russia’s hurting very badly right now because of sanctions, but I think something can happen that a lot of people are gonna benefit.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/trump-russia-europe-putin-may-233644
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Politico: Trump Eager to work with Putin (Original Post) kennetha Jan 2017 OP
Shouldn't that be "eager to work FOR Putin"? Freethinker65 Jan 2017 #1
It's 'for'. And Trump doesn't work. dalton99a Jan 2017 #3
+1 uponit7771 Jan 2017 #7
Eager? He's practically drooling and throbbing dalton99a Jan 2017 #2
IOW, crime pays BeyondGeography Jan 2017 #4
Impeach Dawson Leery Jan 2017 #5
working with Americans named "democrats?" NEVER! rurallib Jan 2017 #6
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