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Media: Trump has been admired by Putin for several years
US President Donald Trump has been under the strong influence of Vladimir Putin for almost 7 years, reports The Wall Street Journal with reference to sources surrounded by Trump and to the opinion of former government officials. Since last year, there are people in his environment with pro -Russian views.
Trump was influenced by Putin in the summer of 2018 after the Summit in Helsinki. The Wall Street Journal reports that during it the presidents of the two countries talked for several hours without advisers. After that, Trump began to make pro -Russian political statements and admire the “strong” Putin, who has “full control over his country”.
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Even during his first presidential term, Trump allowed statements that caused the dissatisfaction of the parliament. For example, immediately after the summit, he said that he is more trusting information about the 2016 US presidential election, which comes from Putin than US intelligence.
The distrust of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky by Trump, according to The Wall Street Journal, may also be an idea that Putin inspired long before the start of a full -scale invasion. Trump and his lawyer Rudy Juliani for a long time claimed that hacker attacks during the 2016 elections were conducted from servers in Ukraine, and from Zelensky Trump demanded to investigate this information. Journalists call this theory "unfounded."
During conversations with Trump, Putin constantly criticized and insulted Zelensky, ridicuating his past experience in the humorous sphere. The Wall Street Journal also claims that in 2024 Trump constantly talked with the Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban, who actively opposes the help of Ukraine. These are the constant statements of the media controlled by the Russian media that the US presidential elections in 2020 were “stolen” significantly influenced the views of Trump.
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According to The Wall Street Journal, today Trump is surrounded by people who share pro -Russian narratives, maintains contact with Paul Manafort, the former lobby of Viktor Yanukovych, and also sincerely considers Vladimir Putin his friend. The interlocutors of journalists also note that Trump's statements about Canada and Greenland are very similar to Putin's rhetoric about Ukraine before the start of the war - this may be caused by the desire to copy the Russian geopolitical strategy.
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