Trump has a record of siding with Putin on key issues
In this Tuesday, July 26, 2016 file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during a meeting in the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia.
Category Archives: Vladimir Putin
Trump Gives His Pal Putin Another Gift on Crimea
Donald Trump said Wednesday that, if he is elected president, he would consider recognizing Crimea as Russian territory and lifting the sanctions against Russia. At a wide-ranging news conference, Trump said he "would be looking into that" when asked about his stance on Crimea and Russia.
The Latest: Trump rejects criticism as ‘mostly false stuff’
Trump tells Fox News Channel in an interview broadcast Thursday that "I guess I take it a little bit personally, but you can't let it get you down." The billionaire real estate mogul was interviewed following a campaign appearance Wednesday evening in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Trump’s news conference: More outrages and lies
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump - I can't believe I wrote those words - gave a news conference Wednesday. Shall we first count the outrages or the lies? I think we need to start at the top of the outrage column.
Trump gets smoother ride than Clinton in Russian media
In this Friday, July 22, 2016 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally in Entertainment Hall at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa. President Obama is joining Clinton's lineup of high-powered validators from the stage Wednesday night, July 27, 2016, to make the case for electing her in November.
‘Anything’s possible’ _ Obama points to Russia on DNC hack
Experts who've followed the leak of Democrat... WASHINGTON - Russia may have been behind the leak of hacked Democratic National Committee documents, President Barack Obama said Tuesday in his first public comments on the breach. Obama, who traditionally avoids commenting on active FBI investigations, broke with that protocol and noted that outside experts have blamed Russia for the leak.
Kremlin: US politicians being ‘paranoid’ about Russia
A Russian presidential spokesman on Tuesday accused U.S. politicians of being paranoid after Democrat Hillary Clinton's campaign blamed Russia for an email hack and suggested the goal was to help Republican Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential race. Hacked emails posted by Wikileaks Friday suggested the Democratic National Committee was favoring Clinton over her primary rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Trump says he would consider alliance with Russia to fight ISIS
Republican nominee Donald Trump said on Monday that if elected U.S. president he would weigh an alliance with Russia against Islamic State militants but rejected any suggestion Russian President Vladimir Putin might be trying to help him win. Speaking at a rally in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Trump dismissed any suggestion that Putin's intelligence services might have had a hand in hacking the Democratic National Committee's email system.
If hackers wanted to mess with Dem convention, mission accomplished on Day 1
The first day of the Democratic convention included an FBI investigation, senior party figures getting booed and fears of a Russian plot to defeat Hillary Clinton. If indeed Vladimir Putin's Kremlin intended to sow chaos in this U.S. presidential campaign, that mission was surely accomplished Monday.
Clinton Campaign Manager Says DNC Email Hacking Was Done by Russians to Help Trump
Hillary Clinton's campaign manager on Sunday suggested that the hacking of Democrat National Committee emails was done by the Russians to help elect Donald Trump president. "I think the DNC needs to get to the bottom of the facts and then take appropriate action on any of these emails," Robby Mook told ABC's "This Week."
Clinton campaign claims hackers linked to Russian government leaked DNC emails
Is Putin trying to 'weaponize' Wikileaks to get Trump into the White House? Clinton campaign claims hackers linked to Russian government leaked DNC emails Clinton's campaign says the move comes after Trump showed last week a pro-Russian stance regarding dealing with NATO allies Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook on Sunday laid the blame at Vladimir Putin's doorsteps for the trove of some 19,252 emails leaked from the Democratic National Committee. 'What's disturbing to us is that experts are telling us is Russian state actors broke into the DNC, stole these emails and other experts are now saying that the Russians are releasing these emails for the purpose of actually helping Donald Trump,' Mook said on CNN 's 'State of the Union.'
Clinton Campaign Chief Suggests Russians May Be Trying to Help Trump Win
Hillary Clinton's campaign manager Robby Mook said Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was pushing for a "pro-Russian" platform and cited experts who say that Russian state actors were behind the recent leak of Democratic National Committee emails in an attempt to help Trump win. "Experts are telling us that Russian state actors broke into the DNC, took all these emails, and now are leaking them out through these websites," Mook told ABC's This Week on Sunday.
Donald Jr. Attacks Clinton Co-Chair For Hinting At Putin-Trump Collusion
In a rare moment of levity, Jake Tapper recalls DrA1 4mpenfA1 4hrer's summary of his RNC performance as 'It was the Trump of times, it was the Trump of times,' a subtle dig at the narcissism we've grown so accustomed to, during this campaign. On Zakaria's GPS , also on CNN, Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens said that the address made him feel like he was watching a Monty Python sketch of the Nuremberg Rally.
Gwynne Dyer: May’s machinations and her three Brexiteers
So far, so good. Boris Johnson, the face of the "Out" side in last month's Brexit referendum and now Britain's new Foreign Secretary, got through his first encounter with the 27 other foreign ministers of European Union countries on Monday without insulting anybody.
Cotton: Trump needs to learn Putin is not a ‘friend’ of the U.S.
Donald Trump needs to get over his admiration of Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to one of the presumptive GOP nominee's most hawkish supporters. "I hope that when Donald Trump begins to receive intelligence briefings of the nature that I've been reviewing for a year and a half now in the Intelligence Committee that he might have a slightly different perspective on Vladimir Putin, because Vladimir Putin is not a friend of the United States," Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said during a foreign policy conversation in Cleveland Thursday.
Alleged Russian Mob Fixer Unifies GOP By Taunting #NeverTrump Movement
Allegedly, Donald Trump is supposed to be about unifying the GOP before the general election gets underway. I say "allegedly" because there is nothing in his words or actions that indicate he is saying anything but "my way or the highway."
International (Non-)Cooperation in a Changing World Order
U.S. President Barack Obama extends his hand to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 28, 2015 . The following is a guest post by Terrence Mullan , program coordinator of the International Institutions and Global Governance program at the Council on Foreign Relations.
When It Comes to American Intervention, There’s Only One Guarantee
Vladimir Putin recently manned up and admitted it. The United States remains the planet's sole superpower, as it has been since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
US and Georgia sign ‘defence partnership’
The United States and Georgia signed a security deal Wednesday designed to shore up the former Soviet republic's defences against Russia as it waits to join NATO. US Secretary of State John Kerry and Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili inked the agreement at a ceremony in Tbilisi just two days before the annual NATO summit in Warsaw.
The US and Russia may have just sealed Al Qaeda’s fate in Syria
Al Qaeda has thrived in Syria thanks to the continued political survival of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Washington's failure to adequately support the revolution's more moderate opposition groups, Syria expert Charles Lister wrote Wednesday . "The principal benefactor of Assad's survival is not Assad, nor Russia, Iran, Hezbollah or even ISIS - it is Al Qaeda," Lister, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute and author of "The Syrian Jihad," wrote in the Daily Beast.