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Donald J. Trump’s doubling down over whether Russian strongman Vladimir Putin deserves his “respect” has drawn criticism from expected and — in the eyes of some — unexpected sources.<\/p>\n

The surprise seems to be coming from congressional Republicans who are none too happy with the president’s equating U.S. and Russian behavior.<\/p>\n

Some have called Trump’s seeming defense of Putin’s history of murder and mayhem an indefensible position.<\/p>\n

According to Politico: \u201cHe\u2019s a thug,\u201d Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said of Putin on Sunday on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union.\u201d \u201cThe Russians annexed Crimea, invaded Ukraine and messed around in our elections. No, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any equivalency between the way the Russians conduct themselves and the way the United States does.\u201d<\/p>\n

There’s also that issue of alleged murder of journalists and dissidents in Russia.<\/p>\n

Trump’s interview with Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly has been broadcast tonight and it appears to illustrate quite graphically the president’s misplaced priorities in our geopolitical relationships. Putin is a bad guy, but the president wants the United States to “get along with Russia.”<\/p>\n

Politico reported further: \u201cI\u2019m not going to critique the president\u2019s every utterance,” the Senate leader said. “But I do think America is exceptional, America is different. We don\u2019t operate in any way the way the Russians do. I think there\u2019s a clear distinction here that all Americans understand, and I would not have characterized it that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump doesn’t get it. <\/a>He isn’t going to acknowledge the United States’ continued status as the greatest nation on Earth. He has vowed to “make America great again.” I would submit that giving the Russian thugs who run things in the Kremlin a pass on their behavior is no way to restore a level of greatness that’s not been lost.<\/p>\n

Are the Republicans in Congress finally<\/em> going to start asking themselves: Is this what we really<\/em> want in a commander in chief?<\/p>\n\n

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Donald J. Trump’s doubling down over whether Russian strongman Vladimir Putin deserves his “respect” has drawn criticism from expected and — in the eyes of some — unexpected sources. The surprise seems to be coming from congressional Republicans who are none too happy with the president’s equating U.S. and Russian behavior. Some have called Trump’s … Continue reading GOP wonders: Is the president really one of us?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[640,1424,1788,3653,5125],"class_list":["post-19617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-bill-oreilly","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-politico","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19619,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19617\/revisions\/19619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}