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babylonsister

(171,054 posts)
Sun Oct 25, 2020, 04:35 PM Oct 2020

Putin rejects Donald Trump's criticism of Biden family business


October 25, 20202:20 PMUpdated 16 minutes ago
Putin rejects Donald Trump's criticism of Biden family business

By Andrew Osborn


MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that he saw nothing criminal in Hunter Biden’s past business ties with Ukraine or Russia, marking out his disagreement with one of Donald Trump’s attack lines in the U.S. presidential election.

Putin was responding to comments made by Trump during televised debates with Democratic challenger Joe Biden ahead of the Nov. 3 election.

Trump, who is trailing in opinion polls, has used the debates to make accusations that Biden and his son Hunter engaged in unethical practices in Ukraine. No evidence has been verified to support the allegations, and Joe Biden has called them false and discredited.

Putin, who has praised Trump in the past for saying he wanted better ties with Moscow, has said Russia will work with any U.S. leader, while noting what he called Joe Biden’s “sharp anti-Russian rhetoric”.

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-putin/putin-rejects-donald-trumps-criticism-of-biden-family-business-idUSKBN27A0TA
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Putin rejects Donald Trump's criticism of Biden family business (Original Post) babylonsister Oct 2020 OP
Whoooof. When Putin bails on you. underpants Oct 2020 #1
Ouch! That's going to leave a mark. Catcar Oct 2020 #2
Oh my,Donnies Mentor Wellstone ruled Oct 2020 #3
bad news for drumpf...... Takket Oct 2020 #4
Uh oh.. Putin sees the handwriting on the wall. ananda Oct 2020 #5
Hedging his bets. tman Oct 2020 #6
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Docreed2003 Oct 2020 #7
First Boris, then Bibi, and finally Vlad. pandr32 Oct 2020 #8
This message was self-deleted by its author comradebillyboy Oct 2020 #9
I expect Erdogan to throw the Dotard under the bus next. comradebillyboy Oct 2020 #10
And Duterte and Bolsinaro and... kag Oct 2020 #24
Et tu, Vlad? 11 Bravo Oct 2020 #11
Exactly.. trump must be Fuming & Cha Oct 2020 #19
Putin smells a loser dalton99a Oct 2020 #12
Poor discarded like a rotting piece of used garbage Trump lunatica Oct 2020 #13
Distancing from having created the mess. There is no currency moonscape Oct 2020 #14
I've wondered that myself. kag Oct 2020 #25
Oopsie! PatSeg Oct 2020 #15
Ummm, thing is... Politicalgolfer Oct 2020 #16
Open windows in tall buildings. keithbvadu2 Oct 2020 #21
If this is totally accurate then . . . peggysue2 Oct 2020 #17
Trouble in Dictatorship land? Cha Oct 2020 #18
Vladdy is welcoming in the new administration. Baked Potato Oct 2020 #20
I'm Going Either/Or ProfessorGAC Oct 2020 #22
You're not going to like what comes next, Vlad. BannonsLiver Oct 2020 #23
It would be nice if Putin saw the writing on the wall Marius25 Oct 2020 #26
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
3. Oh my,Donnies Mentor
Sun Oct 25, 2020, 04:41 PM
Oct 2020

just threw egg in his face. Say it ain't so. When your Handler dissed you,Pal,you are in serious trouble.

Putin knows where his money is and he is not about to risk losing it.

Takket

(21,552 posts)
4. bad news for drumpf......
Sun Oct 25, 2020, 04:44 PM
Oct 2020

this is putin signaling that durmpf is about to no longer be an asset of the KGB. and in the intelligence community when you are no longer and asset, you become a liability.

i wouldn't get to close to any open windows if i were drumpf

Docreed2003

(16,858 posts)
7. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Sun Oct 25, 2020, 04:50 PM
Oct 2020

That is too good. I would love to be a fly on the wall when Donnie hears this news.

Response to babylonsister (Original post)

kag

(4,079 posts)
24. And Duterte and Bolsinaro and...
Sun Oct 25, 2020, 05:51 PM
Oct 2020

They're all cruel dictators, but none of them are as fucking stupid as our wannabe.

moonscape

(4,673 posts)
14. Distancing from having created the mess. There is no currency
Sun Oct 25, 2020, 04:58 PM
Oct 2020

in saying anything different. He already has 45 by the you-know-whats, and in case things fall apart for him he is looking to do some damage control with Biden.

I have wondered if he would really do anything drastic like cut power grid because if it didn't result favorably, it would hell on earth for him.

PatSeg

(47,370 posts)
15. Oopsie!
Sun Oct 25, 2020, 04:59 PM
Oct 2020

Putin knows that Trump is losing. Looks like he's bailing on him. He was just using him anyway and Trump's shelf life has expired.

Donald Trump is soon to be the most alone man on the planet.

Politicalgolfer

(317 posts)
16. Ummm, thing is...
Sun Oct 25, 2020, 05:06 PM
Oct 2020

....Donnie has a big, unhinged, mouth which spews all sorts of shit when someone doesn't love him....so that makes him dangerous to Putin & every other scumbag dictator Don has embraced! These animals, like all mobsters, work in the dark. Maybe they won't want Don & his mouth around any more, if you catch my drift! Also, his inability to repay the money he owes them, also smacks of swimming with the fishes😎

keithbvadu2

(36,748 posts)
21. Open windows in tall buildings.
Sun Oct 25, 2020, 05:37 PM
Oct 2020

Open windows in tall buildings.

Polonium-tipped umbrellas.

Water bottles with nerve agent accidentally brushed on them.

peggysue2

(10,828 posts)
17. If this is totally accurate then . . .
Sun Oct 25, 2020, 05:07 PM
Oct 2020

even Putin sees what direction the winds are blowing, know he'll have to deal with a Biden Administration. As Joe Biden said: 'they know who I am and I know who they are.'

When you lose your last, best foreign ally, you're swirling the drain. Any wonder that Trump switched his accusations to a China connection? Even he knew the Ukraine/Russian connection was hitting a brick wall.

Interesting, too, that Lutsenko, former Unkrainian prosecutor, once again reiterated in a tweet that there was no evidence of wrong-doing by Joe Biden or his son Hunter in their dealings with the country.

Another big Trump strike out!

The truth will come out, one way or the other.

ProfessorGAC

(64,989 posts)
22. I'm Going Either/Or
Sun Oct 25, 2020, 05:38 PM
Oct 2020

Either Putin thinks he can psyop dems into complacency (given who we're talking about, it's not improbable), or;
Putin is writing PINO off.

 

Marius25

(3,213 posts)
26. It would be nice if Putin saw the writing on the wall
Sun Oct 25, 2020, 05:52 PM
Oct 2020

and as a special reward to get in good with the new administration, he dumps all the kompromat he has on Trump and the GOP.

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