Kremlin demands apology from Fox News over Putin ‘killer’ question to Trump

In an interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly on Sunday, Donald Trump refused to decry Russian Federation even when asked about Vladimir Putin’s penchant for using his government to murder political dissenters and journalists. Ben Sasse told ABC New: ‘I don’t know what the president’s trying to do with statements like he allegedly has on O’Reilly on the Super Bowl tonight.

Mr. Trump has praised Putin and signaled that U.S. -Russia relations could be in for a makeover under his leadership. Mr Putin has called Mr Trump a “very bright and talented man.”

“I do respect him”, President Donald Trump said. Will I get along with him?

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Here at last we have a true apples-to-apples comparison for a television event with Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama – or at least as close to one as we’re going to get. It has been clear that Mr. Trump wants Russian Federation by its side as an ally in his fight against “radical Islamic terrorism”. They were looking for something to get him with. “I have no idea”. Mr. Trump replied with a suggestion that the USA has killers, too, saying, “you think we’re so innocent?”

“A lot of mistakes – OK – but a lot of people were killed”, Trump said. “What, do you think our country’s so innocent?”

Trump has previously defended Putin by waving off allegations that the Russian president is responsible for the deaths of his critics and opponents.

President Trump could have said, simply: “Bill, President Franklin Roosevelt dealt with Stalin, 50 million, President Richard Nixon dealt with Mao, another 50 million”.

Trump, apparently, makes no distinction between American-inflicted casualties in a controversial war and the murders of political rivals, human rights advocates and journalists at the hands of an autocrat’s henchmen.

“Putin’s a killer”, O’Reilly said in the interview. In O’Reilly’s opinion, Trump was “straightforward and honest in that interview. whether you liked his answers or not”. “You think our country is so innocent?” He does not seek to enforce democracy in this bad neighborhood, where only Israel is, shall we say, Western.

“We’ve made a lot of mistakes” and then he referenced the Iraq war.

Yet this same Putin, once an operative in the Jew-hating KGB, has an affinity for Jews and even Israel.

Trump’s Vice President Mike Pence tried to explain the administration’s approach to the conflict in eastern Ukraine, which had flared after Trump and Putin spoke by telephone a week ago.

This is the same Chris Christie who in 2015 said that Putin is “punching above his weight” and implored the voters to “Put me in the ring with Putin”.

When it comes to total deaths in this century, the website necrometrics.com attributes roughly 250,000 to countries where the USA had major involvement such as Iraq and Afghanistan and a mere 2,500 to fighting in Ukraine, where Putin has intervened. “Not that it was a moral equivalency between the United States and Russian Federation about actions, but that we don’t have a right to form a judgment”. In essence, Trump used moral relativity to rationalize state-sanctioned murder by comparing it to crime in the USA and deaths that occurred as a result of military actions. “There is no moral equivalency between the United States of America, the greatest freedom living nation in the history of the world and the murderous thugs that are in Putin’s defense of his cronyism”.