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So much Kremlin trolling, so little time. Putin just now in Buenos Aires: “Donald Trump is a man of character, he’s a very experienced person.” (RUS)
I’m somewhat disconcerted by the parallels in Putin’s recounting about his conversation with Trump about the Ukraine/Kerch crisis to their disastrous press conference in Helsinki in July. 2/
Putin’s recounting of what Trump supposedly said last night is, as in Helsinki, more detailed than anything offered up by Trump himself or by other members of the White House delegation to the G20. 3/
At the Helsinki press conference Putin rather transparently appeared to be coaching Trump on how to express proper disapproval of Russian annexation of Crimea amid a spate of press reports at the time that Trump was considering US recognition of Moscow’s action 4/
Putin, who knows exactly what he’s doing and is def no slouch in these situations, matter-of-factly claims that his G20 colleagues (read: Trump) are basically taking the whole incident in stride and didn’t really challenge Russia’s chronology of what happened last weekend END/
