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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumPutin says he was mistranslated and he never called Trump "brilliant."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3649479/Russian-President-Vladimir-Putin-denies-calling-Donald-Trump-brilliant-calls-Republican-bright-wante.htmlVladimir Putin talked to CNN's Fareed Zakaria and charged that he was mistranslated and never called Donald Trump 'brilliant'
What Putin said, the Russian president said, was that the presumptive Republican nominee is 'bright'
In Putin's original statement he used a Russian word that can be translated into bright - but is closer to the English definition of colorful
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Putin says he was mistranslated and he never called Trump "brilliant." (Original Post)
pnwmom
Sep 2016
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Old and In the Way
(37,540 posts)1. A better phrase, polezniye duraki.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)2. Colorful, for sure.
Orange to be specific.
Blanks
(4,835 posts)3. Colorful/gaudy. eom
Hekate
(90,714 posts)5. Neener neener, Donnie