Trump supporters, do we really want a president who panders to Putin?

The intrusion into the Democratic National Committee’s computers, allegedly by Russian hackers, has put a renewed spotlight on Donald Trump’s connections to Russia and its leader, Vladimir Putin.

“Then they talk about Donald Trump and Russian Federation, or Donald Trump, but believe me, folks, somebody can say nice things about me, he did call me a genius but these are minor details, somebody can say nice things about me, it has, it makes no difference”, he said, adding he does not care about people calling bad things about him.

– When the Federal Bureau of Investigation attributed the theft of internal Democratic National Committee emails to Russian intelligence, Trump urged the Russians to produce the 30,000 emails Clinton failed to find for investigators, declaring, “I think you will be rewarded mightily by our press”. At the same time, voters agreed with Trump that the deteriorating relationship between the United States and Russian Federation is not good for America.

So it is no wonder that Trump, whether serious or not, called on the Russians, “if they have them”, to release the 33,000 missing Hillary Clinton emails when she was secretary of state.

Republican candidate Donald Trump was asked about these issues Sunday in an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulus. Clinton, however, did not appear to be convinced by that clarification.

“President Trump would be so much better for US-Russian relations”, said the Republican nominee.

US officials can not say publicly that they let Russian Federation take Crimea unopposed to prevent a large-scale invasion of the rest of Ukrainian territory.

“You did say on three different occasions you had a relationship with him”.

Trump: “OK, well, he’s there in a certain way, but I’m not there yet”.

The Republican presidential nominee highlighted the importance of improved relations with Putin and Russian Federation by affirming that, since Russian Federation was also in possession of nuclear weapons, it was in the United States’ best interest to stabilize the relationship. I didn’t have dinner with him. Two years later, with the help of Manafort, the Party of Regions, led by Yanukovych, won the highest number of seats in parliament and it did so again the following year. He wanted to come. “That would have been a time when I would have met him”, he said.

Obama and the Democrats may not accept it, but the world is and has been a safer and better place when the leaders of Russian Federation and the United States get along. “The timeline is very simple and true, Alisyn”, she told co-host Alisyn Camerota. I have one of the great temperaments.

As far as the Kremlin is concerned, Clinton is the embodiment of meddlesome and wrong-headed ideas that have dominated US foreign policy for a generation. “No matter how good I do on something, they’ll never write good”, he said on Monday. You don’t do that with a bad temperament.

“She’s not a victor”. I had a flawless campaign … Bernie Sanders of Vermont, her Democratic challenger, and his disappointed supporters. Still, Trump’s relationship with Putin is creepy and mysterious.

Noting the Federal Bureau of Investigation was still investigating the hack, Obama said cybersecurity was just another dispute on a long list between himself and Putin. “A conversational relationship or anything that you feel you have sway or influence over his government?”

“So many people who I know and have worked with have been so adversely affected by the sanctions policy”, Page told Bloomberg Politics in March.

“I would be surprised if Trump had NOT tried to nudge the platform at least some places towards his own stances”.

Tyshchenko said recognizing Russia’s annexation of Crimea on the basis of that referendum would amount to recognizing an “Anschluss” – a reference to Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria in 1938.

Let’s hope Russian Federation got the memo though – Trump’s remarks were sarcastic, at least according to him. More broadly, she said Trump’s comments about Ukraine and Crimea undermines the perception that the United States acts as a guarantor of rights and freedoms around the world. “We were stablemates, and we did very well that night.” – portion of an answer at the Fox Business News debate, November 2015.