Trump Says He’ll ‘Get Along Fine’ With Vladimir Putin

But even as his GOP rivals continued to chastise him for the comments Sunday, Trump doubled-down on his praise of Putin – and defended the controversial foreign leader against allegations that he has ordered the killing of journalists who question him. Because I’ve been-you know, you’ve been hearing this, but I haven’t seen the name. I haven’t seen the name. I don’t know that. John McCain, R-Ariz., who facetiously called the alliance “a match made in heaven.” Trump welcomed Putins praise, citing it as proof that a Trump administration would be able to work well with the Russians.“If he has killed reporters, I think thats awful.

When Trump has been pressed about the issue of Putin systemically silencing journalists in his own country, he balks and suggests that the United States has done “plenty of killing too”.

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”.

When confronted with Mitt Romney’s tweet also alleging that Putin kills journalists and political opponents, Trump again dismissed the claims. “He’s never – it’s never been proven that he’s killed anybody”.

The announcement went on to sarcastically add, “Trump said he picked Putin to be his vice-president for his strong approach to dealing with dissent, flexible approach to democracy, rule of law and the Constitution, and his willingness to regularly violate other countries’ territorial integrity in blatant violation of global law if it suited his aims”.

“It’s never been proven that he’s killed anybody. I’ve read those allegations over the years, but nobody’s proven that he’s killed anybody as far as I’m concerned”, Trump said on ABC’s This Week.

There have been at least 56 confirmed deaths of journalists in Russian Federation since 1992, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. And I’ve always had a good instinct about Putin, for me, I just feel that that’s a guy – and I can analyze people.

Russia’s leader is much more calculating than he lets on, experts say, and is probably not as enamored with Trump as it seems. “He’s making minced meat out of our president”.

“He is a strong leader”, the businessman added. “I think it’s bad – awful”. Just like it’s entirely possible that the Reichstag fire was set by a demented communist and not the SA.

The decision on constructing a nuclear power plant in the southern coast of Turkey by Russia’s state-owned nuclear company, Rosatom, is “strictly commercial”, Russian President Vladimir Putin said last week, Kallanish Energy learns.

Trump told Stephanopolous that USA policy had killed “hundreds of thousands” of people.

In the conference, Putin also lashed out at Turkey for shooting down a Russian bomber in a move that was applauded by the crowd of journalists. They were gunned down together in a hail of bullets in 2009. Shortly after Putin was inaugurated for a third term in 2012, the federal assembly passed a series of bills restricting freedom of speech, which included greater censorship of online publishing, bolstering criminal defamation laws and curtailing the right to assemble.

Someone should teach Donald about Google search.

During an interview with ABC News on Sunday, host George Stephanopoulos asked Trump which killings by the USA were like the sanctioned murder of journalists.