Donald Trump turns Putin truther: ‘Nobody has proven that he killed anybody’

Trump’s defense of Putin comes after Putin called Trump “bright and talented” and “the absolute leader of the presidential race” – praise Trump embraced as a “great honor”. He added that Putin knows that the billionaire tycoon is the only candidate who hasn’t criticized Russian Federation for its meddling in Ukraine and Syria. Trump continues to sustain his lead over other GOP contenders with an average of 33 percent support among Republican primary voters.

Trump also said that Putin “totally denies that he kills reporters”.

“We proceed from only one thing, which is we can not abandon the people who live in the southeast of the country to nationalists to eat them up”, Putin told the state-run Rossia television network.

“I wouldn’t want it”, Christie said. And asked about the accusations that Putin’s regime has murdered opponents and members of the press, Trump said: “Our country does plenty of killing also”. In response, Trump said he appreciated “when people call you brilliant” and that “it’s always good, especially when the person heads up Russian Federation”. A lot of stupidity.

“This would be a great start if you think about it. The money we spend on fighting everybody”, Trump told his Christmas themed rally. Trump addressed the issue on ABCs “This Week” on Sunday.

“You’re supposed to be innocent until proven guilty”, Trump said on Sunday. I’m saying, when you say a man has killed reporters, I’d like you to prove it. And I’m saying it would be a bad thing if it were true. Trump repaid the compliment, saying Putin was a strong, powerful leader.

Stephanopoulos then suggested that Trump was suggesting there was a “moral equivalency between the United States and Russian Federation”, and Trump responded, “I’m not saying anything”.

“He’s making mincemeat out of our president”. “I mean right now, we don’t get along with them at all”, he added.

Many comments drew back to Russia’s rocky relations with the USA, with Putin promising to work with any leader that American voters choose. Not us bear the full cost, sometimes?

“Does he know for a fact that he kills the reporters?”

But Trump believes it’s a positive development.

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

Sergei Yushenkov, co-chairman of the Liberal Russia political party and prominent Putin critic, is gunned down at the entrance of his Moscow apartment block in April, 2003.

Although Trump sharply denounced the killing of journalists, he was still defending his new buddy Putin on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday.