Who the fuck cares what that fetid fascist sack of pustulant assholes says?
You are a wordsmith my good sir!
I don't know, he left it kind of ambiguous whether he was talking about Putin or Trump. There's nothing in there that;s specific to either.
And yet, removing the ambiguity seems superfluous. It's not like it'd change anything, right?
the title says "putin says".
ha, says the guy who has to literally murder his opposition to stick around.
"You need to get a conviction! HA!. in russia, we just them out the window."
Trump after getting convicted of 34 felonies:
Indeed. Rich people are not treated like that.
Oh my god.......there's no better representation of it.
Ah yes - the man who still has to have the vote rigged even after arranging for the murders of his opposition speaks on democracy...
"Democracy is when your leaders can get away with anything, but their opposition gets jailed for nothing." - antidemocratic dipshits
As a European I think, Trumps closeness to Putin and fascism in general ""burns’ idea of US as leading democracy".
" STAHP TRYING TO JAIL MY PUPPET!"
On the contrary. But, of course, he’s just stirring shit.
Didn't he arrest his opponents?
Yes, but only with the achieved intent to murder them.
"Relax man, I was just going to shoot you in the head and kill you."
"Coming from you, that's high praise!"
You can tell a man's character by the friends he has
Yeah, we should really give two wet shits what the all-but-in-name dictator of Russia has to say about democracy. When we need advice about subverting democracy with false flag attacks on your own civilians, we'll be sure to ask ol Vladdy what he thinks.
Then shouldn't he be in favor of it?
Putin proves the idea that a pile of shit can run a fucking cesspool.
As if the US were ever a leading democracy to begin with. Not a good one at least.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Vladimir Putin has described the recent criminal conviction of Donald Trump as politically motivated and claimed that it had “burned” the idea that the US was a leading democracy.
Trump last week became the first former US head of state ever convicted of a felony crime after a New York jury found him guilty of 34 charges over efforts to conceal a sexual liaison with an adult film actor, Stormy Daniels, in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.
In a press conference on Wednesday, Putin said: “It is obvious all over the world that the prosecution of Trump – especially in court on charges that were formed on the basis of events that happened years ago, without direct proof – is simply using the judicial system in an internal political struggle.”
Speaking earlier this week, the former White House Russia specialist Fiona Hill warned that Putin was likely to see Trump’s conviction as a chance to undermine the US’s global influence and boost his own standing.
“What mischief does he have to make when you have people within the American system itself denigrating it and pulling it down?” Hill, a former senior adviser to three US presidents – including Trump – said to AP.
Earlier this year, Putin said he would prefer to see Biden re-elected in remarks that were met with skepticism by many Russia watchers who believe his intention may be to use his notoriety to boost Trump.
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