Putin Criticizes Democrats for Impeaching Trump

[Mrs. Overall]

Source: Wall Street Journal

Russian President Vladimir Putin blasted U.S. Democrats for impeaching President Trump on what the Russian leader called “made up charges,” and said he expects the U.S. leader to survive the firestorm in Washington and remain in power.

Speaking at a wide-ranging end-of-year news conference, Mr. Putin described Wednesday’s events in Congress as “the continuation of political infighting” between Democrats and Republicans. “I don’t think Trump will be voted out of power on made up charges,” Mr. Putin said. “Democrats lost the last election, and now they want to win by other means.”

Nearly all Democrats in the House of Representatives supported abuse-of-power and obstruction of Congress charges against Mr. Trump for pressing Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, a leading Democratic candidate for 2020’s presidential election. Republicans voted against sending Mr. Trump for trial in the Senate, while the president defended himself in a series of messages on Twitter where he railed against Democrat lawmakers for “trying to nullify the ballots of tens of millions of patriotic Americans,” he said.

At the centerpiece news conference, for which more than 1,800 journalists were accredited, Mr. Putin fielded questions on topics ranging from the conflict in eastern Ukraine to the price of plane tickets to Russia’s far-flung regions.

Read more: https://www.wsj.com/articles/putin-criticizes-democrats-for-impeaching-trump-11576759602

[Sanity Claws]

1. Further proof that Putin thinks he is in control of the US

[KatyBR]

4. He IS in control of our President

And the Republicans to a person are falling behind Putin's lead.Don't they understand that Putin intends to put in place a dictatorship in the U.S. So many of our fathers and mothers likely died stopping Hitler, what's wrong with these guys?

[FiveGoodMen]

36. "Don't they understand that Putin intends to put in place a dictatorship in the U.S.?"

Yes, and they expect to run it.

And take a cut.

[durablend]

8. And intends to rig the vote, no doubt

[yaesu]

18. Putin is running things, his mob connections have so much goods on the entire Con party that

he can call the shots, he owns them & this country as long as the Cons are in power.

[Scotch-Irish]

23. Not to mention they are running off all of our qualified military generals

This is far more dangerous than anybody in the media seems to understand.

[keithbvadu2]

38. Russian Trump supporters celebrated their victory.

Russian Trump supporters celebrated their victory.

"It turns out that United Russia won the elections in America," Viktor Nazarov, the governor of Omsk, Russia, declared in a radio interview.

http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/news/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/news/world/make-russia-great-again-if-trump-lifts-sanctions-putin-could-finally-establish-his-country-as-an-equal-to-u-s&pubdate=2016-12-03

[Turbineguy]

2. Nothing like having the president's boss

unhappy about trump getting caught.

[RKP5637]

5. tRump's going to get a bad performance review at his next evaluation with Putin! n/t

[NCjack]

3. Thank you for that comment, Boss Putin. nt

[Moostache]

6. Oh shit...Daddy Putin is speaking out???

Hey Vlad - kindly fuck right off asshole, your opinion on your bagman's fate is neither desired nor relevant.
Do you maybe need some added sanctions to get the point fuck-face?

[turbinetree]

7. So Putin.........................have you by chance read the new book by Malcome Nance

.........................you really should be in jail along with your orange hair lackey....................and I really do not give shit what you have to say about impeachment.....................We the People, the majority in "our house" just had our voices heard......230-197..................so in basic terms go fuck yourself............................

Your lackey is going down.....................even if #Moscow Mitch another lackey whines today about the process.......................the traitors are going down.............................

[magicarpet]

9. Could Putie come run AmeriKKKA,...

... so donnie can go play more golf ?

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Why does WSJ give foreign leaders legitimacy on US politics?

This is just off center, unpatriotic, un-American. Putin's opinion has ZERO legitimacy here in the United States. ZERO.

[ffr]

11. Said live on Fox News, hosted by Sean Hannity, with special guest VP Mike Pence

[RKP5637]

12. GOP equals Russian first, USA last. n/t

[sandensea]

13. In Soviet Russia, dictator impeach YOU

[ArizonaLib]

19. I love the Smirnoff!

Good guy. Very intelligent.


Solidarity!

[sandensea]

21. He's timeless in a way - not least because things over there haven't really changed

"In America," he once pointed out, "you can always find a party."

"In Soviet Russia, The Party can always find you!"

[Jim__]

14. How dare the Democrats attack the leader Putin hand-picked for us!

[JudyM]

17. Exactly. His statement is also an exhibit for any case about Russian collusion.

[Richard D]

15. "he expects the U.S. leader to survive the firestorm in Washington and remain in power."

Should read: remain in his power.

[MarcA]

16. Message to vlad. The SEALS have the Kremlin's coordinates. n/t

[Scotch-Irish]

24. The SEALS hands are tied by Trump and all the generals jumping ship.

Trump gave our country to russia. The republicans are glad he did.

[ArizonaLib]

20. So much for the party of Reagan!

idiots

[Wuddles440]

22. If anyone still....

believes that the election next November hasn't already been favorably predetermined (aka fixed) for the Orange Maggot and the CONS, this statement by Putie should dispel that naive notion. I'm sure that the KGOP has received assurances from him that there will not be a repeat of the 2018 debacle.

[2naSalit]

33. Exactly.

[Tactical Peek]

25. A hit dog will holler.

Pootie removes all doubt.

[2naSalit]

34. +1

[oldsoftie]

26. Just cant make this shit up

[kacekwl]

27. Sounds like a win

to me

[SunSeeker]

28. Putin being pissed proves we did the right thing. nt

[Me.]

29. So Now The WSJ Quotes Putin & Cares What He Says?

[RussBLib]

30. sounds a lot like GOP talking points

Another demonstration that the GOP has no principles at all. They change with the wind.

[2naSalit]

31. PAPERBALLOTSPAPERBALLOTSPAPERBALLOTSPAPERBALLOTSPAPERBALLOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[truthisfreedom]

32. I simply couldn't see this coming.

I’m so blindsided by this refreshing opinion from a distant vantage point. In hell.

[DFW]

35. If he is ever overthrown, Putin has a brilliant future with Fox And Comrades. Or SNL.

“I don’t think Trump will be voted out of power on made up charges,” Mr. Putin said.

He won't be voted out of power on charges that are absolutely true, either. That is not the point. What this impeachment is about is abuse of power, the exposing of it to the fullest, and the exposing to the fullest of those who enable(d) it. We already know about Putin's role, so his ranting is exquisitely irrelevant.

[Submariner]

37. FU you commie MF'er

I hope some Ukrainian kills you.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

39. And we should care what he thinks, ..... why? nt

[keithbvadu2]

40. What a coincidence that Putin sounds like Moscow Mitch.

What a coincidence that Putin sounds like Moscow Mitch.

[TheFourthMind]

41. Looking forward to the pic of Putin and Trump staring up from their "spider hole."

And of course watching the trials of their enablers. There is no light at the end of this Trump/Putin tunnel. Only more darkness.

[Nitram]

42. More proof that Donald and the GOP are corrupt to the core.

[jmowreader]

43. Then, obviously, it was the right thing to do

[Noctiuagus]

44. Say what you want about Vlad,

he always sticks up for his servants!