then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Geneva and presented him with a small box wrapped in ribbon. "We want to reset our relationship, and so we will do it together," Clinton told him.
Lavrov opened the box to find a red button with the word “peregruzka” printed on it. "We worked hard to get the right Russian word [for 'reset']. Do you think we got it?" Clinton asked. Lavrov, laughing, told her she hadn't. “It should be 'perezagruzka,'" he said. "This says ‘peregruzka,’ which means ‘overcharged.’” https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/did-putin-really-call-trump-brilliant-experts-say-it-got-n644866
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2-15-2019 Trump thought that North Korea did not have the capability to launch such missiles. He said he knew this because Vladimir Putin had told him so," McCabe wrote, according to WaPo. https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-took-putins-word-over-us-intelligence-on-north-koreas-icbm-2019-2
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1-26-2016 with Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo, Trump appears skeptical of the findings of a British inquiry that concluded Putin “probably approved” the 2006 poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko. “Have they found him guilty?” Trump says. “I don’t think they’ve found him guilty. But in all fairness to Putin you’re saying he killed people. I haven’t seen that. I don’t know that he has. Have you been able to prove that? Do you know the names of the reporters that he’s killed? Because I’ve been--you know, you’ve been hearing this, but I haven’t seen the name….But Maria, in all fairness to Putin--I don’t know. You know, and I’m not saying this because he says ‘Trump is brilliant and leading everybody’--the fact is that, you know, he hasn’t been convicted of anything.”
“Every time he sees me, he says, ‘I didn’t do that,' " Trump said. “And I believe--I really believe that when he tells me that, he means it.”
Trump: “I hate the (Saudi) coverup. And I will tell you this: the crown prince hates it more than I do. And they have vehemently denied it (ordering the brutal killing of Khashoggi.”
Trump: “The reason Russia was in Afghanistan was because terrorists were going into Russia. They were right to be there. “ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mkADo6TvVUYJ:https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/01/10/times-trump-has-sided-with-foreign-country-over-his-own-government/+&cd=12&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
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12-21-2019 Trump’s refusal to accept that Russia interfered in 2016 and insistence on instead blaming Ukraine led advisers to believe Putin himself planted the idea of Ukraine’s culpability in Trump’s head, the report says. One former senior White House official told the Post that Trump once said Ukraine was the real culprit because “Putin told me.” https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/12/trump-putin-impeachment-support-conspiracy/
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7-31-16 Trump tells ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that under a Trump presidency, Putin is “not going into Ukraine. He’s not going into Ukraine, OK, just so you understand,” Trump says. “He’s not going to go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down. You can put it down. You can take it anywhere you want.” When pressed about Russia’s invasion of Crimea, Trump says, “OK—well, he’s there in a certain way. But I’m not there. You have Obama there. And frankly that whole part of the world is a mess under Obama with all the strength that you’re talking about and all of the power of NATO and all of this. In the meantime he’s going away. He takes Crimea.” https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/07/18/trump-on-putin-the-u-s-president-in-his-own-words/
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Trump always says it’s a great “honor” to meet these killers; he calls them his friends. Does he know they’re laughing behind his back? Russia’s state-run TV, for example-- run by Putin--constantly makes fun of Trump, and not in a good way. Trump is a “clown.” https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/07/03/donald-trump-shames-america-kim-putin-bin-salman-column/1626817001/
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4-28-2017 Trump on CCP Chairman Xi: “I believe he is trying very hard. He certainly doesn’t want to see turmoil and death. He doesn’t want to see it. He is a good man. He is a very good man and I got to know him very well. With that being said, he loves China and he loves the people of China. I know he would like to be able to do something, perhaps it’s possible that he can’t,” Trump said. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-exclusive-idUSKBN17U04E
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