Donald Trump on reporters: ‘I would never kill them’

“We’re killing people. They’re killing people”.

“Extremely sad”, Trump said.

In its latest jab at Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, John Kasich’s campaign is running a digital ad declaring the billionaire has chosen Russian President Vladimir Putin as his running mate. Asked to condemn the Kremlin’s alleged involvement in the assassination of reporters, Mr. Trump said, “Our country does plenty of killing, also”.

Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders knocked Trump’s rhetoric in an interview on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, accusing him of lying repeatedly.

“What somebody like a Donald Trump is doing is playing on the fears and anxieties of the American people, ” Sanders said. He’s great. He’s leader.

“It is always a great honour to be so nicely complimented by a many so highly respected within his own country and beyond”, he said. Addressing the criticism he has received over his views on President Putin, Trump said, “Isn’t it sort of nice if, like, countries that we’re always fighting with, maybe we get along?”

“You would not have had the problem, to the extent, not almost to the extent… instead, nobody had a gun except the bad guys, and when the bad guys have a gun and the good guys do not, it is very simple math it’s not to work out well”.

“There are many allegations he was behind the killing of Anna Politkovskaya”, Stephanopoulos said.

The Committee to Protect Journalists lists at least 36 reporters killed in Russian Federation since 1993. I’m totally against that.

“It’s never been proven that he’s killed anybody. But I do hate them”. I never discuss my family with anyone. “I would never do that”.

The business mogul and reality television star dismissed questions about Putin’s invasion of Crimea and close ties with Iran. “We’re losing influence around the world and Putin is gaining influence”, Bush said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” program on Sunday.

“As far as the reporters are concerned, obviously I don’t want that to happen, I think it’s terrible”, Trump said on ABC’s “This Week”.

Opposing conventional knowledge, Trump continued by saying he has yet to see any evidence that Putin as killed anybody “in terms of reporters”. He says he didn’t.

At rallies this month in SC and Nevada and a luncheon in NY, protesters have interrupted the candidate, attacking his controversial proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the United States and other statements of his they say are racist or discriminatory. Scarborough told Trump that Putin was “also a person who kills journalists, political opponents, and invades countries”.

“I really believe that Russian Federation and the United States can be a positive force together as opposed to really working negatively with each other all the time”, he said.