Manuel Balce Ceneta/APWASHINGTON — Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza told Congress last week that there is no equivalence between the US’ political system and Putin’s Russia, as President Donald Trump implied in a recent interview with Fox News host Bill O’Reilly.
In the February interview, Trump acknowledged O’Reilly’s premise that Putin is a “killer,” but said “we have a lot of killers” in the US, too.
“You think our country’s so innocent?” Trump asked.
Kara-Murza, who was testifying before the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations, said “that kind of false equivalence is one of the Kremlin’s oldest propaganda tools.”
Indeed, Putin near-default response to …read more
Source: Business Insider
