Former top CIA official: Putin wants Trump to win

He assumed office on January 14, 2013.

Donald Trump’s campaign on Thursday reaffirmed its extraordinary embrace of Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, signaling a preference for the leadership of an authoritarian adversary over that of America’s own president, despite a cascade of criticism from Democrats and expressions of discomfort among Republicans.

Asked on Thursday if he agrees with Trump, Pence told CNN, “I think it’s inarguable that Vladimir Putin has been a stronger leader in his country than Barack Obama has been in this country”.

When King asked about reports that USA intelligence agencies are investigating whether Russian Federation is trying to disrupt the election, Trump said that he’s skeptical.

When Romney sounded the alarmed about Russian Federation in 2012, President Obama turned it into a punch line, suggesting the former MA governor was stuck in the past.

Democrats are livid that at a televised forum on national security broadcast live from NY on Wednesday night, Mr Trump appeared to get an easier ride from the NBC moderator, Matt Lauer, than she did.

“Vladimir Putin is a thug, a dictator, an autocratic ruler who has his opposition killed in the streets in Russian Federation”, the South Carolina Republican told reporters on Capitol Hill.

Trump has previously angered many in the military community with mocking remarks against US Senator and former prisoner of war John McCain for being captured in Vietnam. “Every time he speaks” he shows why he shouldn’t be commander-in-chief, he said.

“We have a plan to defeat ISIS”, referring to a proposal that is part of Ryan’s “Better Way” policy agenda.

“The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the Cold War’s been over for 20 years”, Obama said during his third debate with Romney.

“In the intelligence business, we would say that Putin had recruited Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation”, Morell had written.

“The military commanders serve at the pleasure of civilian authority”. “And I’m confident that our military commanders can bring forward the ideas once the commander in chief makes the mission clear, and Donald Trump has made the mission clear”.

“Permitting there to be an ongoing civil war in Libya would be as threatening and as risky as what we are seeing in Syria”, she said. According to a YouGov Poll conducted in late July, 26 percent of Trump supporters have a favorable view of the Russian leader-compared to just 8 percent for Obama.

In his first two terms as president, from 2000 to 2008, Putin enjoyed a growing economy, bolstered by rising oil prices.

During a televised forum on Wednesday on national security, Mr Trump complimented Mr Putin for having “great control over his country”.

He added that comparison applies to one of his favorite adjectives to describe Reagan: “Humble”.

When Romney made his claim, “it was outside of the mainstream, or an overstatement”, said Republican strategist Matt Mackowiack. “What would Ronald Reagan say about a Republican nominee who attacks American generals and heaps praise on Russia’s president?” “If you are running to be leader of the free world and you find admiration for Putin, well, then, you’re losing me”. “If you were looking for competency, Donald Trump fell short”, he said in a Facebook post.