By employing the president’s buzzwords—“made-up charges,” “witch hunt”—the Russian president is seemingly angling to keep Trump in his corner
got some words of encouragement Thursday from his favorite authoritarian,after he became the third president in American history to face removal from office. “First they accuse Trump of collusion with Russia, then it turns out there was no collusion so this cannot be used as a basis for impeachment,” Putin said in an end-of-year news conference Thursday. “Now, they’ve come up with the idea he put pressure on Ukraine.
This, of course, sounds a lot like one of the GOP lines of defense, which insists Democrats are set on impeaching Trump because they dislike him, and are afraid he will be re-elected. “I don’t think Trump will be voted out of power on made up charges,” he contnued. “Democrats lost the last election, and now they want to win by other means.” Putin’s comments onreport, too, echo his own condemnation of the document back in April. “President Trump knows best. We know from U.S.
Like Republicans, Putin has plenty to lose if Trump is somehow ousted from office. The Trump administration essentially welcomed Moscow’s interference in 2016, and more recently has the conspiracy that Ukraine, and not Russia, meddled in the election—a talking point that comes straight from the Kremlin, U.S. intelligence officials
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