Donald Trump Bizarrely Heaps Even More Praise On Vladimir Putin

[TomCADem]

Source: Talking Points Memo

Donald Trump lavished more praise on Vladimir Putin in Wednesday's NBC News' Commander-In-Chief forum, even after moderator Matt Lauer brought up the numerous ways Russia as sought to undermine U.S. interests.

"Well, he does have an 82 percent approval rating according to the different pollsters, who by the way, some of them are based here," Trump said.

Trump went on to say he welcomed the compliments Putin has paid him.

"If he says great things about me, I'm going to say great things about him," Trump said. "The man has very strong control over a country. Now it's a very different system and I don't happen to like the system, but certainly in that system, he's been a leader. Far more than our president has been a leader."

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-putin-control-over-a-country

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Trump continues to brazenly talk about his man crush on Putin, yet the MSM bends over backwards to draw a false equivalency between Hillary and Trump on national security.

[George II]

1. What he forgot to say is that the other 18% are in Siberia.

[okaawhatever]

2. It is appalling that the msm allows Trump's Russian connections to go largely unexamined. It is

malpractice that we know as little as we do about the connections and financial involvement. But, ya know, Hillary coughed.

[Blue_Tires]

5. Hell, a lot of media pundits are actively defending them

(i.e., Greenwald)

[Vinca]

3. You have to give Putin credit. He identified Trump as an easy mark and he's working him

like a puppet. Trump's reaction seems to be to develop a man crush on Vlad.

[GusBob]

4. The Siberian candidate eom

[renate]

6. it's interesting that Trump is so upfront about how easily he can be influenced

"If he says great things about me, I'm going to say great things about him."

From what I've read so far this morning, nobody in the media has glommed onto this absolutely extraordinary admission. Trump just gave every world leader a road map to his own Achilles' heel.

[TomCADem]

7. America's Very Own Meglomaniac Dictator

All the banana republics have had one. I guess it is high time we get our own.

[moondust]

8. "it's a very different system"

I have a strong feeling that TheRump does not know the first goddam thing about the Russian "system," much less being able to compare and contrast it with any other. It is quite possible that in his bloviating ignorance he is thinking of the old Soviet system.

Pure bullshit.

[JHB]

9. Thump this drum, people...

The Republican nominee for president gets his marching orders straight from the Kremlin.