Comrade Johnson , our new POTUS (president of the U. S.) [his initials are DJT] {best not to let the CIA (in your case) or the NSA (in our case) catch you mentioning his name} gets along extremely well with Putin.Hi everybody, I am from Russia, Moscow. I'd like to learn something about your new president.
Putin of course is controversial. He (Putin) staged that entire Chechnyan thing and killed all those innocent people to make himself look patriotic.
However most people here in the USA have some clue that BHO (our past POTUS -- also good not to get caught mentioning his name either on the Internet) and his CIA botched Ukraine trying to turn them into another NATO ally. And that's why Putin finally put his foot down in Ukraine. Crimea is an extremely strategic port for Russia and has been for hundreds of years since before Katherine The Great.
John Paul Jones our favorite Naval hero worked for Katherine The Great by the way.
So right now relations between DJT and Putin are good. They seem like friends even though they have never actually met (according to DJT -- who keeps changing his story on whether he has or has not).
If you yourself are trying to figure out whether DJT is secure in the office of POTUS or not, nobody really knows.
He has a honeymoon period since he is a novice to get his ducks all in a row. He has blundered several times already, especially a few days ago by slandering our former POTUS BHO.
You in Russia have a procedure called "vote of no confidence". We don't have that.
We have "impeachment" -- direct removal from office for anyone in a Federal administration job. This is carried out by the two houses of our Federal legislature, called Congress. You have the Duma -- a legislature with no teeth nor power. Our legislatures are the foundation of all American power at the national and local levels. Our administrative leaders are subject to our legislatures in the case of corruption.
I doubt DJT would be impeached for any one thing. I suspect he would need a rather long list of missteps before the #2, #3, and #4 leaders in our Federal Government would take the necessary steps, which would then also require the concurrence of the #5 and #6.
#2 - VP Pence (Catholic)
#3 - House Speaker Ryan (Catholic)
#4 - Senate Leader McConnell (Protestant)
#5 - Senate Minority Leader Schumer (Jewish)
#6 - House Minority Leader Pelosi (Catholic)
Note that none of them is Russian Orthodox as in your Country.
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