Read: Putin’s Christmas Letter To Donald Trump

Russian President Vladimir Putin, listens during a joint news conference with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, following their meeting in Istanbul, Monday, Oct. 10, 2016. Putin and Erdogan voiced support for ... Russian President Vladimir Putin, listens during a joint news conference with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, following their meeting in Istanbul, Monday, Oct. 10, 2016. Putin and Erdogan voiced support for the construction of a gas pipeline from Russia to Turkey, called Turkish Stream, a project that was suspended amid tensions between the two countries. The pipeline would carry Russian natural gas to Turkey and onto European Union countries. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel) MORE LESS
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On Friday, Trump’s transition team blasted out a Christmas letter from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“A very nice letter from Vladimir Putin; his thoughts are so correct. I hope both sides are able to live up to these thoughts, and we do not have to travel an alternate path,” President-elect Trump said of the letter.

Putin’s letter is short, but offers Trump a holiday greeting and a glimpse of the kind of relationship Putin is looking for from Trump.

“I hope that after you assume the position of the President of the United States of America we will be able – by acting in a constructive and pragmatic manner– to take real steps to restore the framework of bilateral cooperation in different areas as well as bring our level of collaboration on the international scene to a qualitatively new level,” Putin wrote according to the letter provided from the Trump campaign.

Putin ended “please accept my my sincere wishes to you and your family of sound health, happiness and well being, success and all the best.”

Read the whole letter here:

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  1. “And if relations ever become strained, let’s meet for tea in London”.

  2. Wow - who explained all those big words to Pepe?

  3. We may not have Trump’s income tax returns, but somewhere somebody does - and there are definitely people who know how much of a stake Russian oligarchs have in his finances. The simple fact that Trump can take essentially unilateral action and we are not allowed to know this information stupifies me - what country am I living in again?

  4. Oh, gag me with a nuclear warhead!

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