Given that the main body evidence for any direct contact between the two came from Trump himself, when he boasted on two occasions that “nice” Putin “contacted” him and that “he spoke to Putin directly and indirectly” in 2014, it is harder to believe that now Trump has actually disowned those claims himself.
However, Trump staffers’ suspected links with the Kremlin and Trump’s own willingness to speak favorably of the Russian leader set the imagination going about what their relationship would be like. Upon closer inspection, many of Trump’s statements, while outlandish and shocking, have decided echos of Putin and …read more
Source: Newsweek
