Putin reacts to Comey firing: "We have nothing to do with that"

[brooklynite]

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Source: CBS News

Russian President Vladimir Putin said the firing of former FBI Director James Comey will have "no effect" on U.S.-Russia relations, reacting for the first time to President Trump's dramatic ouster of the man leading the probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign.

Putin spoke with CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer shortly before taking to the ice at a hockey game in Sochi. Palmer asked the Russian leader how Comey's firing would impact already frosty relations between the two nations.

"There will be no effect," Putin said, with press aide Dmitry Peskov translating. "Your question looks very funny for me. Don't be angry with me. We have nothing to do with that."

"President Trump is acting in accordance with his competence, in accordance with his law and Constitution," Putin said. "What about us? Why we?"




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"A nation of laws..."

[Freethinker65]

1. Alrighty then

Waiting for Trump to quote Putin's assessment in a tweet

[Cryptoad]

2. The Coup is Complete,,,,,,,,,

[mnhtnbb]

3. Well, if Putin approves, it must be ok.

[C_U_L8R]

4. Putie must laugh himself to sleep every night

Oh that Trump, what a moron!!!

[Solly Mack]

5. Under the (guise of the) "rule of law" lie the dead bodies of the oppressed.

[keithbvadu2]

6. Russian supporters celebrated their victory. "It turns out that United Russia won the elections

Russian supporters celebrated their victory.

"It turns out that United Russia won the elections in America," Viktor Nazarov, the governor of Omsk, Russia, declared in a radio interview.

http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/news/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/news/world/make-russia-great-again-if-trump-lifts-sanctions-putin-could-finally-establish-his-country-as-an-equal-to-u-s&pubdate=2016-12-03

[Achilleaze]

7. republicans delighted that pooty poot is pity patting them on the back

so that they can continue to piss all over Americans and American democracy.

[MountCleaners]

8. What a rude MOFO he is

Mind your own damn business, puto. Like he has any regard for our Constitution. If he did, Russia wouldn''t be such a disaster.

Sheesh, it's like he's in the oval office talking over the Grapefruit Gipper's shoulder. Maybe he should give the press conference.

[Paladin]

9. "...in accordance with his competence..."

Vlad said a mouthful there, even if he was unaware of it.

[forintegrity]

11. I could give

a rats ass what Putin thinks! This is none of his damn business!!!!! He needs to just go away!

[Honeycombe8]

12. WTH? We have PUTIN giving an opinion on U S government affairs?

This is outrageous.

[ffr]

13. Just weird isn't it. And every republican in the nation is applauding him.

I can't get my gaping mouth to shut. Republicans are selling our country down the river to a foreign power.

[Honeycombe8]

14. Outrageous. Traitorous.nt

[MBS]

15. Me, too.

I've been following this story closely, and yelling about this, for 2 years now, and I am still shocked. Actually, it gets more shocking by the minute.

[JackRiddler]

29. He answered a question from an American reporter.

Many of the responses on this thread seem to have missed that.

[SeattleLakerFan]

16. Who knew Putin was an expert on American constitutional law?

I guess we know trump's next Supreme Court nominee if he's given the chance.

[delisen]

27. Maybe he has a few American experts on the Kremlin payroll

I'm beginning to think Putin owns a whole shadow American government,

[jeffreyi]

17. I feel so much better now.

[herding cats]

18. Then Sergey Lavrov does a victory lap around the Oval Office with Trump.

Just to help drive the point home how Russia now owns the highest office of government in the USA.

[Locrian]

19. i have a bad feeling...

that we have not seen the real end game: crash the US economy (and the likely world shock waves). Payback for the meddling of the Russian economy by Geitner / Summers etc and a way for Russia to emerge with some sort of advantage.

I think this is the tip of what Putin wants to do - basically destroy the US w.o firing a shotby getting the gop and everyone else to do their dirty work.

[Dream Girl]

23. Bingo!

[Erick the Read]

20. Of course not, Vladdy!

It's merely a coincidence that Trump just announced his nomination of Leonid Kuliksky as Comey's replacement, describing him as "a brilliant Scots-Irish American."

[Hortensis]

21. Lol. Putin on Comey firing:

"We have nothing to do with that."

[orangecrush]

22. Bullshit

Bullshit you lying prick.

[Cha]

25. funny he felt compelled to say that.

[orangecrush]

28. Putin is no joke, unlike Donald Trump

Obama and Hillary recognized him as the utterly dangerous opponent he is, and dealt with him appropriately.

Unlike Trump, Putin rarely makes mistakes. His comment and the debacle with Russian press in the White House were meant to humiliate America, with Trump and the GOP as accomplices.

[Cha]

24. Weird you had to say that.

[WePurrsevere]

26. When Putin & Trump speak, my mind now tends to autocorrect to the opposite.

Suddenly living in a Bizzaro world tends to have that type of impact I guess.