A few days ago during press conference after the BRICS Summit:
Question: Have you grown disappointed with Donald Trump since his election as US President?
Vladimir Putin: your question is very naïve. After all, he is not my bride, and I am not his bride or fiancé. We hold public offices, and each country has its own interests.
Trump is guided in his activities by his country’s national interests, and I am guided by my country’s interests.
I do hope that we will be able, as the current President of the United States said, to find compromises in resolving bilateral and international issues so that they can be settled in the interests of the American and Russian people taking into account the special
responsibility for international security that lies on our two countries.
Vladimir Putin’s news conference following BRICS Summit
I don't give a rats ass what Putin thinks.
What the Trump team never realised is that they were being watched since
2015.
"GCHQ
first became aware in late 2015 of suspicious “interactions” between figures connected to Trump and known or suspected Russian agents, a source close to UK intelligence said. This intelligence was passed to the US as part of a routine exchange of information, they added.
Over the next six months, until summer 2016, a number of western agencies shared further information on contacts between Trump’s inner circle and Russians, sources said.
The European countries that passed on electronic intelligence – known as sigint – included Germany, Estonia and Poland. Australia, a member of the “Five Eyes” spying alliance that also includes the US, UK, Canada and New Zealand, also relayed material, one source said."
British spies were first to spot Trump team's links with Russia
Which is why Trump Jr. couldn't pull off a secret meeting in the Trump tower in June 2016.
Which is why Shep Smith knew in February 2017, that Trump aids were on the phone with Russian intelligence agents, including the very day that Russians hacked into DNC databases--(and after the Trump team denied any contact with any Russians during the campaign season 17 TIMES.)
Kushner contradicts Trump team's denials of Russia contacts - CNNPolitics
Now Mueller has convened two Grand Juries, and loaded up on over 15 criminal prosecutors, money laundering experts, and last week added the criminal division of the IRS to the case, and Trump is under investigation for Obstruction of Justice.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller using grand jury in widening Russia probe
Robert Mueller Employs Powerful Weapon In Trump-Russia Investigation: The IRS
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And it sure didn't help that Trump got on an NBC interview with Lester Holt, and made an announcement that he fired Comey over the Russian investigation.
How you liberals can even believe in such primitive
fairly tales about a white bull (so to say in Russian style) or complete bullsh*t (to phrase it in English)? Nobody even believed Trump would become a Republican candidate to begin with, EVERYBODY was laughing at him. How Putin could make Republicans vote for him, what you are even talking about and what mushrooms are you liberals eating all together?
Megyn Kelly: There have been questions about the communications between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign....
Vladimir Putin: Well, this is just another piece of nonsense. Where would we get any information about him? Did we have some kind of special relationship with him. There was no relationship whatsoever. Yes, he visited Moscow in his day. But, you know, I never met him.
Many Americans come here. There are representatives of 100 companies from the US, who have come to Russia. Do you think I have met each and every representative of those American companies? And we will help them implement their plans in Russia and will try to steer things in a direction so that they can work here successfully and make a profit.
And should they all be arrested for it afterwards? Have you lost your minds there or something? Do you think we are gathering dirt on all of them now? Are you all right in the head, all of you there?
Interview to NBC