"Vladimir knew that (Russian President Vladimir) Putin is a killer. Vladimir knew there was no moral equivalence between the United States and Putin's Russia," said McCain, who's long been a fierce critic of Trump's rhetoric about Russia. "There is no moral equivalence between that butcher and thug and KGB colonel and the United States of America, the country that Ronald Reagan used to call a shining city on a hill. And to allege some kind of moral equivalence between the two is either terribly misinformed or incredibly biased. McCain listed a number of other Putin critics and journalists who've allegedly been killed by the Russian government.

Source: CNN February 07, 2017 23:23 UTC