Imagine if a Democrat said something like this. Imagine if a Democratic President named Barack Obama had said something like this. It might be phrased as a question about hating America.
If Valdimir Putin actually had Donald Trump under his thumb the way the Steele dossier claims, Trump wouldn’t be doing anything differently. What is the alternative explanation for why Trump consistently bends over backward and sideways to rationalize and defend Putin? Trump lashes out at Democrats, Republicans, judges, neighbors, allies, the casts of Broadway musicals and television comedy shows, but never has a bad word to say about Putin. Why?