President Trump looks toward Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) while speaking at the GOP policy retreat in Philadelphia. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press)A trio of Republican senators reacted sharply Sunday to President Trump’s latest apparent defense of Russian President Vladimir Putin, rejecting Trump’s suggestion in an interview that America cannot claim moral superiority to Putin’s Russia. Our country’s so innocent?”[O’Reilly told Trump that Putin is a killer. Trump’s coziness is at odds with years of GOP foreign-policy orthodoxy calling for a more aggressive stance toward Putin’s regime. lambasted Trump’s remarks and called on him to “show moral leadership about this issue.”“Let’s be clear: Has the U.S. ever made any mistakes?

Source: Washington Post February 05, 2017 16:00 UTC