Donald Trump once again said he respects Putin, even though the Russian president is a "killer."
Speaking of Fox News, the president appears to have interviewed the United States and Russia on the same moral plane, broadcast before most of the US sporting events, Super Bowl Lee, starting Sunday in Houston.
When the owner, Bill O'Reilly, asked him if he respected Putin, Trump answered: "I respect Putin.
Trump's respect and willingness to Putin was a familiar metaphor for the election period, the main US intelligence agency that the Russian intelligence department tried to represent Trump influence. This belief led to the intense division between Trump and the intelligence community has not yet healed.
Last weekend, the two presidents called by phone, said a conversation with Australia and other allies than the leaders call more smoothly. The two governments held summits.
"I respect a lot of people, but that does not mean I'm going to get along with them," Trump continued, "and he's the leader of his country.I said better than Russia, if Russia helped us to fight Isis was a major The battle, and Islamic terrorism around the world, the main battle, which is a good thing.
"I will be with him? I do not know. This is very possible, I will not."
"He's a killer," O'Reilly said. "Putin is a killer.
Since 1992, 36 journalists have been murdered in Russia since the first time since President Putin first became president in 1992, according to the Project Correspondents' Committee. Most notably Anna Politkovskaya was shot in 2006 in an investigation of Chechnya's torture.
This question preceded Trumb's view of the Russian president. In December 2015, MSNBC host Scarborough told Trump: "He killed journalists who disagreed with him.
Trump replied: "Well, I think our country has also done a lot of killing, Joe.
The same week, Trump told ABC News: "Fair to Putin, you said he killed people. I did not see. I do not know he has."
"If he killed a journalist, I thought it was horrible," he added, "but it was not like someone standing in a gun and he was accused or admitting that he was killed, he always denied.
"It never proves that he killed anyone, so you know you should be innocent until proven guilty, at least in our country, he has not been proven that he is killing a journalist."
Trump said he accepted the report that Russia was behind his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton, but rejected the idea that he could not win the White House without the help of Russia. An investigation is underway into the relationship between Trump's assistant and the Russian actor.
Trump's critics often put Putin's murder on the subject. Senator John McCain of Arizona said the Russian president was a "murderer and a mob," and he was a fierce rival to lift the sanctions against Russia, which Trump had to mobilize.
Fox also said that Trump answered a question O'Reilly had in his statement, but there was never evidence that his failure was caused by a large number of voter frauds through nearly three million votes in the public vote.
"When you see ... people who are not citizens, they are registering volumes ... this is a very bad situation," Trump quoted.
Trump said he was willing to work with Kiev and Moscow together to resolve the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine, following a phone call with Ukrainian President Boris Borisenko Saturday.
This is the first direct contact between the two leaders since the establishment of Trump, whose purpose is to improve relations with the Kremlin, shocked Kiev, and the last three years of the conflict is still unresolved.
Its new gun attack in the Donbass region of Ukraine, which exploded a silence in a frontline hotspot, raised hopes that the worst of the escalation of the conflict was on the decline for a few months.
"We will work with Ukraine, Russia and all the other parties to help them restore peace along the border," Trump said in a statement with the White House, with Borocco.
