In an interview aired Sunday, Bill O’Reilly asked President Trump why he is so supportive of Russian strongman Vladimir Putin. After all, said O’Reilly, “Putin’s a killer.”
“There are a lot of killers,” Trump replied. “Got a lot of killers. What, do you think our country’s so innocent?”
Says a Wall Street Journal editor, “Trump puts US on moral par with Putin’s Russia. Never in history has a President slandered his country like this.”
Do you think Trump’s cynicism about American innocence and how, far from being “good guys” we are no better than Putin is slanderous? It will be hard for his leftist critics to make much of this, since they often say much the same thing about America’s alleged crimes. Or is this comment simply sober realism?
From Trump says America isn’t so innocent, USA Today:
President Trump is reiterating his desire to improve relations with Russia and dismissing concerns that Vladimir Putin is a “killer,” in a Fox News interview set to air Sunday before the Super Bowl.
Fox News released excerpts of the interview Saturday in which host Bill O’Reilly asks the president why he’s so respectful of Putin.
“Putin’s is a killer,” O’Reilly said in the interview.
“There are a lot of killers,” Trump responded. “Got a lot of killers. What, do you think our country’s so innocent?”. . . .
The excerpts drew condemnation from some conservatives, including the Wall Street Journal’s deputy editorial page editor, who tweeted that “Trump puts US on moral par with Putin’s Russia. Never in history has a President slandered his country like this.”
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In an interview aired Sunday, Bill O’Reilly asked President Trump why he is so supportive of Russian strongman Vladimir Putin. After all, said O’Reilly, “Putin’s a killer.”
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