Trump congratulates Putin on ‘great’ hostage swap

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politico.eu

U.S. Republican nominee Donald Trump commended Russian President Vladimir Putin over a historic prisoner swap deal struck last week, suggesting the Russian leader got the better end of the agreement.

“I’d like to congratulate Vladimir Putin for having made yet another great deal. Did you see the deal we made?” Trump told a crowd of supporters at a campaign rally in Atlanta on Saturday as he criticized the Biden administration for its handling of the swap.

The former U.S. president, who is bidding for a second term in the White House amid a string of court cases against him, said the prisoner exchange led to the release of “some of the greatest killers” in the world.

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How could anyone ever think that Trump was a stooge for Putin? What a baseless witch hunt that investigation was. /s

Celebrating that Putin got one over on the US is a weird thing to campaign on.

Weird for someone who's pro-US.

Pretty standard for Trump. He's got a long history of sucking the dicks of our enemies.

Totally normal thing for an American to do. Not weird at all. No whiffs of treason here!

Weird to be cozying up with a communist pig who started an unprovoked war that killed so many or his own countrymen for no fucking reason other than perceived power.

Putin is a lot of things but he’s not a communist despite wanting a return to the USSR’s heyday

Fair fair fair. How about pig fucker.

I'd call him an imperialist/czarist rather than a communist.

No True Scotsman Communist would have been a Lt. Colonel in the KGB.

He's just hoping that Putin will be willing to trade prisoners for his release once all the crimes catch up to him.