Trump now: ‘I never met Putin’; previously: ‘I got to know him very well’
Donald Trump is singing a different tune about Vladimir Putin than he did when he bragged about knowing him.
“I have nothing to do with Russia,” Trump maintained in an interview with CBS’s Miami affiliate. “I never met Putin, nothing to do with Russia.”
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But in November’s Fox Business Republican debate, Trump went out of his way to defend Putin, and played up their relation based on having once met. “I got to know him very well because we were both on 60 Minutes. We were stablemates, and we did very well that night,” he said.
Based on that meeting, Trump defended Russian intervention in Syria. “If Putin wants to go and knock the hell out of ISIS, I am all for it, 100%, and I can’t understand how anybody would be against it,” he said.
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