President Trump seemed to give Russian President Vladimir Putin a pass on state-sanctioned murder in a TV interview that will air Sunday afternoon.
Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly asked Trump why he respects Putin given that Putin’s “a killer,” and got this answer from the president:
“There are a lot of killers. We’ve got a lot of killers. What do you think? Our country’s so innocent?”
Earlier in the interview, Trump hedged on whether he “respects” the Russian leader. “I respect a lot of people, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to get along with him,” Trump said.
“I say it’s better to get along with Russia than not, and if Russia helps us in the fight against . . . Islamic terrorism all over the world, that’s a good thing.”
Trump and Putin discussed how to work together to defeat global terrorism and solve conflicts in Syria in a Jan. 28 phone call.
Meanwhile, Trump told Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Saturday that the US would work with “all parties’’ to restore peace on its border with Russia.
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