Retired general: Trump's Putin remarks may be 'most anti-American statement' ever by president

[babylonsister]

http://thehill.com/homenews/318086-retired-general-trumps-putin-remarks-most-anti-american-statement-ever-said-by


Retired general: Trump's Putin remarks may be 'most anti-American statement' ever by president
By Mallory Shelbourne - 02/06/17 01:17 PM EST


Former Gen. Barry McCaffrey on Monday said President Donald Trump’s recent comments about Russian President Vladimir Putin may be “the most anti-American statement” ever made by a commander-in-chief.

“I’m actually incredulous that the president would make a statement like that,” McCaffrey told MSNBC.

“One could argue that’s the most anti-American statement ever made by the president of the United States. To confuse American values with Putin, who is running a criminal oligarchy.”

Trump in an interview pushed back when Fox News host Bill O’Reilly said Putin is “a killer.”

“There are a lot of killers. We've got a lot of killers. What, you think our country is so innocent?" Trump said.

McCaffrey told MSNBC that the president's comments shed light on “an astonishing state of affairs,” adding that “it’s hard to know what to think about it.”

Putin "kills people abroad and at home," he said, also touching on the imprisonment of journalists, seizures of business property and invasions of Crimea and eastern Ukraine.

Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday argued Trump was not trying to compare the two countries.

“I simply don’t accept that there was any moral equivalency in the president’s comments,” he told CBS News’s “Face the Nation.”

[Phoenix61]

1. Hey Pence, doesn't matter if you accept it or not

Twitler said it! Yep, you hitched your little red wagon up to someone who is crazy.

[ProudLib72]

2. Forthcoming Twitter attack ala the Khan family

...3,...2,...1

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

3. Yet, apparently the majority of American military personnel and their families

support the treasonous narcissist. Propaganda really is a high yield investment.

[Solly Mack]

4. Remember when we got called pinko commie liberals for simply caring about others?

Yeah. Me, too.

Republicans are like antibiotic resistant bacteria. Expose them to a little knowledge and they immediately start to fight against it.

[BeyondGeography]

8. They're the real freaks

And until enough white people figure it out we'll be pretty much running in place.

[Solly Mack]

9. I am amazed daily by them, and not amazed in a good way either.

I don't know whether to pity them or bury them in the kitty litter box.

[justhanginon]

5. Just like there is no moral equivalency between you, Mr. Pence,

and actual Christians. At least the Christians I know.

[GP6971]

6. The senior military staff

must be going nuts. As if they're not putting up with enough of trump's crap already.

[lpbk2713]

7. With "leadership" like Trump who needs enemies?

If he's not gone one way or another in six months there won't be much left of the USA.

[world wide wally]

10. WTF do you expect from a traitor?

[Cha]

11. I'm not incredulous.. you have to know of trump. Hope he

didn't vote for him.

trump didn't disagree that putin's a killer

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. K&R

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

13. The electors were idiots to not see this shit coming. n/t

[LAGC]

14. Could you imagine the outrage on the right if a Democratic president had uttered those words?

"You think our country is so innocent."



IOKIYAR.