Preparing summit with President Joe Biden, Russian President Putin calls Donald Trump as the "Colourful Trump" and openly admitted that in the 2016 vote he supported Trump
VietPress USA (June 11, 2021): According to NBC News, Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an exclusive interview Friday with NBC News, called former President Donald Trump a "colorful individual" and said he can work with President Joe Biden.
Putin compared the two presidents at a time when relations between Russia and the United States are at a historic low and ahead of the Russian leader's upcoming summit with Biden.
"Well even now, I believe that former U.S. president Mr. Trump is an extraordinary individual, talented individual, otherwise he would not have become U.S. president," Putin told NBC's Keir Simmons during a wide-ranging and, at times, contentious interview. "He is a colorful individual. You may like him or not. And, but he didn't come from the U.S. establishment. He had not been part of big-time politics before, and some like it, some don’t like it but that is a fact."
Joe Biden met Vladimir Putin 10 years ago in 2011 when he was the Vice President on a visit to Moscow as pictured above. But this time, as a sitting President of the United States, Joe Biden will bring to Russian President Putin many hard matters to dispute. The White House has said Biden will bring up ransomware attacks emanating from Russia, Moscow’saggression against Ukraine, thejailing of dissidentsand other issues that have irritated the relationship.
Vladimir Putin, has said US-Russia relations are at their lowest point in years, in an interview before his meeting with the US President Joe Biden next week.
Putin characterized the former US president Donald Trump as “an extraordinary individual, talented individual”, but impulsive, and said Biden, as a career politician, was “radically different” from the “colourful” Trump.
“It is my great hope that, yes, there are some advantages, some disadvantages, but there will not be any impulse-based movements on behalf of the sitting US president,” he said, according to a translation by NBC News.
“We have a bilateral relationship that has deteriorated to its lowest point in recent years,” Putin said. But Biden, at the start of an eight-day visit to Europe this week, said: “We’re not seeking conflict with Russia.
“We want a stable and predictable relationship … but I’ve been clear: the United States will respond in a robust and meaningful way if the Russian government engages in harmful activities.”
Putin has openly admitted that in the 2016 vote he supported Trump, who voiced admiration for the Russian leader and notoriously at their first summit appeared to accept his denials of election interference.
Vladimir Putin says Biden ‘radically different’ after impulsive Trump
Russian ruler says relations with US at their lowest point in years as the two presidents prepare to meet in Geneva
Ahead of a meeting in Geneva on 16 June, tensions are high between the US and Russia over a litany of issues including hacking allegations, human rights and election meddling. Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images
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The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has said US-Russia relations are at their lowest point in years, in an interview before his meeting with the US president, Joe Biden, next week.
Putin and Biden will meet in Geneva on Wednesday. The White House has said Biden will bring up ransomware attacks emanating from Russia, Moscow’saggression against Ukraine, thejailing of dissidentsand other issues that have irritated the relationship.
“We have a bilateral relationship that has deteriorated to its lowest point in recent years,” Putin said, according to an NBC translation of excerpts of an interview broadcast on Friday.
Putin characterised the former US president Donald Trump as “an extraordinary individual, talented individual”, but impulsive, and said Biden, as a career politician, was “radically different” from the “colourful” Trump.
“It is my great hope that, yes, there are some advantages, some disadvantages, but there will not be any impulse-based movements on behalf of the sitting US president,” he said, according to a translation by NBC News.
Putin has openly admitted that in the 2016 vote he supported Trump, who voiced admiration for the Russian leader and notoriously at their first summit appeared to accept his denials of election interference.
Biden, at the start of an eight-day visit to Europe this week, said: “We’re not seeking conflict with Russia.
“We want a stable and predictable relationship … but I’ve been clear: the United States will respond in a robust and meaningful way if the Russian government engages in harmful activities.”
Putin was asked about several Russian dissidents whose deaths have been blamed on Moscow, including the ex-KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko who was poisoned in 2006. Putin dismissed the question and said some of those responsible for the deaths had gone to prison.
Asked about Biden calling him a killer in an interview in March, Putin said he had heard dozens of such accusations. “This is not something I worry about in the least,” Putin said, dismissing it as part of “macho behaviour” common in Hollywood.
Such discourse “is part of US political culture where it’s considered normal. By the way, not here, it is not considered normal here,” he said.
On the issue of recent ransomware attacks that the United States has traced to Russia, Putin denied any knowledge of the hackings and called on Biden to reach an agreement with him on cyberspace, NBC News said.
Putin also dismissed a report in the Washington Post this week that Russia was preparing to supply Iran with an advanced satellite that would enable it to track potential military targets across the Middle East. “It’s just fake news. At the very least I don’t know anything about this kind of thing,” Putin said, according to NBC News. “It’s just nonsense, garbage.”
