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Obama criticized Trump for RT “interview”
US President Barack Obama criticized US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for an interview he allegedly gave to the Russian TV channel Russia Today.
Speaking to a rally for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in Philadelphia, Obama said Trump "came on Russian state television last week to denigrate our military and praise Vladimir Putin."
According to Obama, Trump considers the Russian President his role model. “He says, ‘He has a rating of 82 percent!’ Well, Saddam Hussein had a rating of 90 percent. This happens when you control the press, take away people's civil rights and imprison dissidents,” said the US President.
- On September 9, the RT television channel published a telephone interview with Donald Trump, which he gave to Larry King. Representatives of the US presidential candidate said that Trump was not warned that the interview would appear on a Russian television channel.