Vice Presidential candidate Mike Pence on Thursday defended Donald Trump’s most recent comments about Russian President Vladimir Putin, telling CNN that Putin is a “stronger leader” than President Obama.
Pence said that Trump was speaking “boldly” on Wednesday when he said that Putin is a leader “far more than our president has been a leader.”
“I think it’s inarguable that Vladimir Putin has been a stronger leader in his country than Barack Obama has been in this country. And that’s going to change the day that Donald Trump becomes president,” Pence told CNN.
Pence said that with his praise for Putin, Trump was not trying to praise dictatorship.
“Donald Trump said last night he doesn’t particularly like the system,” Pence told CNN.
Pence also defended his running mate’s Wednesday remark that military generals have been “reduced to rubble” under President Obama.
“I think he was talking about the commander in chief reducing the influence of generals to rubble,” the Indiana governor told CNN.
What he is really saying of course is "“I think it’s inarguable that Vladimir Putin has been a stronger leader in his country simply because Putin is not black.”
Pence and the GOP also know the media will simply play his actual quote with no push back at all since it gives the media another opportunity to denigrate the President.
So, here’s a question:
When asked about Colin Kaepernick’s not putting his hand over his heart during the Star Spangled Banner, Trump said the following:
When that same Donald Trump says that Putin’s a stronger leader than Obama, and as proof he cites Putin’s approval ratings, ignoring the killing of journalists and artists and the jailing of gays, with the exception of Lindsey Graham the Republican Party accepts these statements with a shrug.
On the contrary, maybe Trump should run for President of Russia if that country works better for him.
Where is Joe McCarthy when you need him?
In the 50’s they would have been under investigation as communist sympathizers
Even in current times imagine for one minute any Democrat praising a foreign dictator and deriding a Republican President There would be congressional investigations and accusations of treason.
I give up . I can’t take it any more
I won’t speak of the Putin-Obama comparison, it’s absurd. I will say that years ago I helped a friend take home a Christmas tree from an open-air Boy Scout tree-sale operation. There was a kid running it, maybe 11, smart and poised, just the world’s most together kid. I figured he was destined for some good leadership-type stuff. And that kid at that age was a billion times the leader weasel-ass Mike Pence is. Crawling, sacrificing every trace of honor or integrity or patriotism a person could ever possess, just for a near-infinitesimal shot at a bit more political notoriety. Fucking disgraceful.
Their dishonor routinely goes far beyond a person’s capacity to feel enough disgust for them. It’s exhausting.