He repeatedly defended Putin’s honor, taking umbrage at talk of Putin’s Russia as a place where naysaying journalists and political opponents wound up dead. “If I’m president, Putin says, ‘Hey, boom, you’re gone.’ I guarantee you this.” Love, alas, is as bad at predictions as it is blind. Trump had a way of hauling Putin into unrelated conversations, just to insist that Putin cared only for him. “I’ve never seen a human being sweat like this man sweats.” Take me, Vlad. If I mean anything at all to you, Vlad, you’ll do it.

Source: New York Times July 06, 2017 16:41 UTC