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Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the second-highest ranking Democrat in the Senate, slammed President Trump for his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of being "dazzled" by strongmen around the world.
"This president is totally dazzled by Vladimir Putin, by the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, by authoritarian leaders in countries like Brazil," Durbin said on "Face the Nation" Sunday. "He gets on the phone with them and loses it, gets all googly eyed over their assertions that they have nothing to with what's going on in Venezuela."
The Illinois Democrat referenced a telephone call between Mr. Trump and his Russian counterpart that lasted more than an hour on Friday. The president, according to White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, discussed special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation "very briefly," and only in the context that "it's over" and found no "collusion."
Although the special counsel did not establish a criminal conspiracy between Trump campaign associates and the Kremlin, his report outlined a broad, sophisticated effort by Moscow to sow discord among the American public and interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/durbin-trump-gets-googly-eyed-when-talking-to-putin/ar-AAAW5vH
Skittles
(153,321 posts)dalton99a
(81,709 posts)Blue Owl
(50,605 posts)And Melania looks like she's got some hidden desires as well...
malaise
(269,365 posts)when they were not on a video call.
This is some crazy shit
emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)And like the murderous snake Putin was some kindly old fount of wisdom, reassuring his baby blimp Donnie, when the two of them are in cahoots to undermine our democracy. And Europes. They both favor Marine Le Pen, daughter of an occupation Nazi, who now dissembles in her positions to try to win over France. She came close last election.
I said to a pro-immigrant, fairly progressive friend in France that gosh darned Macron should just step down in the face of these protests.
She said but then, we dont know what we might get. Possibly Marine Le Pen.
Such a far right shift is a danger throughout Europe.
And Putin has been putting his rubles and propaganda in there.
FoxNewsSucks
(10,447 posts)the way MF45 lusts for Putin, Kim, Mr Bonesaw and pretty much any dictator, that's just puppy love.
It's that republicons want to have that same kind of power here. Jail their opponents. Hack and dismember anyone who dares speak against them. Fix every election so that they "win" overwhelmingly. Loot the treasury, line their pockets.