Headline Roundup • February 5th, 2017
Trump Compares US and Russia
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Newsmax (News)
President Donald Trump said he had respect for Russian President Vladimir Putin and asked whether the United States is innocent in an interview with Fox News' Bill O’Reilly set to air ahead of the Super Bowl on Sunday.
Wall Street Journal (News)
President Donald Trump appeared to draw an equivalence between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the behavior of the U.S. when he responded to a remark about Mr. Putin being a “killer” by saying: “We got a lot of killers—what, you think our country’s so innocent?”
President Donald Trump doubled down on his support for Russian President Vladimir Putin in a Fox News interview to be aired ahead of the Super Bowl on Sunday.
Speaking to Bill O’Reilly, Trump shrugged off the anchor’s characterization of Putin as a “killer,” noting that Americans are just as bad.
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