Trump says Putin’s innocent until proven guilty: ‘Has anybody proved he’s

“I think that my words represent toughness and strength, ” he said. I think it would be frightful. You and other people tell me he killed reporters.

“I like people who weren’t captured”, Trump said of McCain in July. Have you been able to prove that?’.

Trump conceded that if the allegations were true, he would “think that that’s awful”, but added, “this isn’t like somebody that stood with the gun and taken the blame or admitted that he’s killed”.

“It’s just another Hillary lie”, Trump said. Trump’s apparent pleasure at Putin’s compliment last week earned him some criticism back home, but the Republican frontrunner has stuck to his position since. He’s not. He kills journalists.

“When people call you brilliant it’s always good, especially when the person heads up Russia”, Trump said on MSNBC Friday morning.

The dominant Republican in the nominating race was pressed by ABC’s host, George Stephanopoulos, about his seeming to draw a moral equivalence between the killings of journalists under Putin and the American government’s killing of terrorists overseas. Last week, Putin said Trump is “a very bright and talented man”. In 2010 alone, at least ten journalists were killed including 47-year-old Konstanin Popov who was allegedly raped by police with a broom handle while in custody.

And on Sunday, Trump again defended his new best friend and denied that Putin had ever given orders to kill journalists in his own country – an allegation that is widely presumed in the country and across the world. “Because if we get along well with Russian Federation, that’s a positive thing”. You’re supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, at least in our country. Asked to condemn the Kremlin’s alleged involvement in the assassination of reporters, Mr. Trump said, “Our country does plenty of killing, also”.

Where Putin sees corruption as the norm, Trump similarly regards public service as a marketplace in which anyone and everyone can be bought.

Worldwide law that excludes double and triple interpretation should be strengthened to avoid chaos, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a documentary aired Sunday.

Trump contrasted his potential friendship with Putin with Obama, whom he lamented has “never gotten along” with the Russian leader.

He backed Russia’s role in the Iran nuclear deal, saying it makes sense Putin would want closer ties to Tehran now that the United States has agreed to loosen economic sanctions on the country – freeing up more money to purchase missiles.