Trump insists Putin used the ‘n word’ about Obama and ‘I hope he likes me’
Donald Trump wants the Russian dictator to like him.
Trump talking Putin goes from "he called Obama the n-word" to "I hope he likes me" in 20 seconds. pic.twitter.com/u1iNXOpQmL
— Elliott Schwartz (@elliosch) July 27, 2016
For the record, there is literally zero evidence that Putin ever called Obama the n-word. It’s hard to say where Trump got this idea, but he has a long history of naively restating things he heard from one person — even random people on Twitter. As Ezra Klein argued for Vox, Trump’s gullibility is one of the reasons he’s not qualified to be president.
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But this also seems like a bizarre attempt by Trump to try to make himself look better than Obama. He’s essentially arguing that Putin disrespects Obama so much — to the point that he called the preside
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