Putin reacts to Comey firing: "We have nothing to do with that"
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Source: CBS News
Russian President Vladimir Putin said the firing of former FBI Director James Comey will have "no effect" on U.S.-Russia relations, reacting for the first time to President Trump's dramatic ouster of the man leading the probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign.
Putin spoke with CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer shortly before taking to the ice at a hockey game in Sochi. Palmer asked the Russian leader how Comey's firing would impact already frosty relations between the two nations.
"There will be no effect," Putin said, with press aide Dmitry Peskov translating. "Your question looks very funny for me. Don't be angry with me. We have nothing to do with that."
"President Trump is acting in accordance with his competence, in accordance with his law and Constitution," Putin said. "What about us? Why we?"
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/putin-reacts-to-comey-firing-we-have-nothing-to-do-with-that/
"A nation of laws..."
Freethinker65
(10,021 posts)Waiting for Trump to quote Putin's assessment in a tweet
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,388 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)Oh that Trump, what a moron!!!
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,806 posts)Russian supporters celebrated their victory.
"It turns out that United Russia won the elections in America," Viktor Nazarov, the governor of Omsk, Russia, declared in a radio interview.
http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/news/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/news/world/make-russia-great-again-if-trump-lifts-sanctions-putin-could-finally-establish-his-country-as-an-equal-to-u-s&pubdate=2016-12-03
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)so that they can continue to piss all over Americans and American democracy.
MountCleaners
(1,148 posts)Mind your own damn business, puto. Like he has any regard for our Constitution. If he did, Russia wouldn''t be such a disaster.
Sheesh, it's like he's in the oval office talking over the Grapefruit Gipper's shoulder. Maybe he should give the press conference.
Paladin
(28,257 posts)Vlad said a mouthful there, even if he was unaware of it.
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forintegrity
(473 posts)a rats ass what Putin thinks! This is none of his damn business!!!!! He needs to just go away!
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)This is outrageous.
ffr
(22,670 posts)I can't get my gaping mouth to shut. Republicans are selling our country down the river to a foreign power.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)I've been following this story closely, and yelling about this, for 2 years now, and I am still shocked. Actually, it gets more shocking by the minute.
JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)Many of the responses on this thread seem to have missed that.
SeattleLakerFan
(4 posts)I guess we know trump's next Supreme Court nominee if he's given the chance.
delisen
(6,043 posts)I'm beginning to think Putin owns a whole shadow American government,
jeffreyi
(1,943 posts)herding cats
(19,564 posts)Just to help drive the point home how Russia now owns the highest office of government in the USA.
Locrian
(4,522 posts)that we have not seen the real end game: crash the US economy (and the likely world shock waves). Payback for the meddling of the Russian economy by Geitner / Summers etc and a way for Russia to emerge with some sort of advantage.
I think this is the tip of what Putin wants to do - basically destroy the US w.o firing a shotby getting the gop and everyone else to do their dirty work.
Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)Erick the Read
(55 posts)It's merely a coincidence that Trump just announced his nomination of Leonid Kuliksky as Comey's replacement, describing him as "a brilliant Scots-Irish American."
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)"We have nothing to do with that."
orangecrush
(19,555 posts)Bullshit you lying prick.
Cha
(297,229 posts)orangecrush
(19,555 posts)Obama and Hillary recognized him as the utterly dangerous opponent he is, and dealt with him appropriately.
Unlike Trump, Putin rarely makes mistakes. His comment and the debacle with Russian press in the White House were meant to humiliate America, with Trump and the GOP as accomplices.
Cha
(297,229 posts)WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)Suddenly living in a Bizzaro world tends to have that type of impact I guess.