...and you think The World is paying attention to Putin for enlightenment on the American electoral process?
Gimmeafukkinbreak.
This Putin Thing is outrageous.
If Donald J. Trump told an audience that General Robert E. Lee was the greatest American General of the 19th century, would anybody have any trouble understanding his point? Would anybody seriously think that the remark indicated that Trump favors chattel slavery? Or that Trump supports the Confederate States of America over the USA?
Of course not. The remark would concern Lee's leadership and military skills and successes.
But Trump calls Putin a "great leader," and allovasudden people are unable to distinguish the difference between saying he is a great political leader - which he manifestly is - and "I support everything the man has ever done in office, especially the annexation of the Crimea."
It's all Leftist bullshit, perpetuated by a compliant MSM.