Mitch McConnell on Trump's Putin praise: 'I'm not going to critique every utterance of the president [View all]

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DAVID EDWARDS
05 FEB 2017 AT 09:38 ET

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“Well, you think our country is so innocent?” the president added.

CNN host Jake Tapper pressed McConnell about Trump’s remarks during a Sunday interview.

“He is a former KGB agent, a thug, not elected in a way that most people consider a credible election,” McConnell said of Putin. “No, I don’t think there is any equivalency with the way the Russians conduct themselves and the way the United States does.” But the Senate Majority Leader refused to rebuke Trump for the remarks.

“Look, Jake, I can speak to myself and I have about my feelings for Vladimir Putin,” he told Tapper. “I’m not going to critique every utterance of the president.”

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