"I heard from a lot of people at the Principles First event who have the same suspicions you do, Eric, but I'm still inclined to believe it's the strong-man crush thing.
"Trump loves Putin. He loves the power he has over the Russian people. In many ways, Trump wants to BE Putin — he wants to be a strong-man dictator (though our system is …
"I heard from a lot of people at the Principles First event who have the same suspicions you do, Eric, but I'm still inclined to believe it's the strong-man crush thing.
"Trump loves Putin. He loves the power he has over the Russian people. In many ways, Trump wants to BE Putin — he wants to be a strong-man dictator (though our system is standing in the way of that). And he desperately wants Putin to like him."
Then how do you explain Pres. Trump during his first term, getting into a viscous war of words with Kim Jong Un? Un has more control over his country than Putin has over Russia. Of course that was prior to Pres. Trump saying of Un "then we fell in love."
Pres. Trump obviously admires dictators. He's almost said it explicitly. But I think there's something else afoot.
"I heard from a lot of people at the Principles First event who have the same suspicions you do, Eric, but I'm still inclined to believe it's the strong-man crush thing.
"Trump loves Putin. He loves the power he has over the Russian people. In many ways, Trump wants to BE Putin — he wants to be a strong-man dictator (though our system is standing in the way of that). And he desperately wants Putin to like him."
Then how do you explain Pres. Trump during his first term, getting into a viscous war of words with Kim Jong Un? Un has more control over his country than Putin has over Russia. Of course that was prior to Pres. Trump saying of Un "then we fell in love."
Pres. Trump obviously admires dictators. He's almost said it explicitly. But I think there's something else afoot.