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37 times Trump was soft on Russia
Updated 10:36 AM EDT, Tue August 4, 2020
Editors Note: This story originally published on November 17, 2019. It has been updated to include 12 new instances in which President Trump has gone easy on Russia.
CNN
President Donald Trump has an Achilles heel when it comes to Russia.
Over the years, hes made no secret that he has a soft spot for the country and its authoritarian leader, President Vladimir Putin. Trump has proved that he is willing to reject widely held US foreign policy views and align himself with the Kremlin on everything from Russian interference in US elections to the war in Syria.
Most recently, Trump has denied the veracity of US intelligence reports accusing Russia of paying bounties to Taliban fighters to kill US troops in Afghanistan. Pressed on the topic during an interview with Axios that was released on Wednesday, Trump said he did not raise the issue during a recent phone call with Putin, and continued to suggest that the reports are fake news.
During the 2016 campaign, Trumps ties to Russians were so concerning that the FBI believed there was good reason to investigate potential collusion between his 2016 campaign and the Kremlin. Counterintelligence investigators also examined whether Trump himself was somehow a Russian asset. (Special counsel Robert Mueller did not establish a criminal conspiracy of collusion.)
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/17/politics/trump-soft-on-russia/index.html
Editors Note: This story originally published on November 17, 2019. It has been updated to include 12 new instances in which President Trump has gone easy on Russia.
CNN
President Donald Trump has an Achilles heel when it comes to Russia.
Over the years, hes made no secret that he has a soft spot for the country and its authoritarian leader, President Vladimir Putin. Trump has proved that he is willing to reject widely held US foreign policy views and align himself with the Kremlin on everything from Russian interference in US elections to the war in Syria.
Most recently, Trump has denied the veracity of US intelligence reports accusing Russia of paying bounties to Taliban fighters to kill US troops in Afghanistan. Pressed on the topic during an interview with Axios that was released on Wednesday, Trump said he did not raise the issue during a recent phone call with Putin, and continued to suggest that the reports are fake news.
During the 2016 campaign, Trumps ties to Russians were so concerning that the FBI believed there was good reason to investigate potential collusion between his 2016 campaign and the Kremlin. Counterintelligence investigators also examined whether Trump himself was somehow a Russian asset. (Special counsel Robert Mueller did not establish a criminal conspiracy of collusion.)
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/17/politics/trump-soft-on-russia/index.html
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37 times Trump was soft on Russia (Original Post)
demmiblue
Feb 2022
OP
TFG would have withdrawn the USA from NATO by now if TFG had been re-elected
LetMyPeopleVote
Feb 2022
#1
LetMyPeopleVote
(144,951 posts)1. TFG would have withdrawn the USA from NATO by now if TFG had been re-elected
Stuart G
(38,414 posts)2. K and R
underpants
(182,632 posts)3. Kick
Jerry2144
(2,082 posts)4. And for completion sake
The complete list of times trump was tough on Russia:
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