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Putin says ‘talented’ Trump is ‘absolute front-runner,’ welcomes pledge to work with Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin has praised Donald Trump for wanting deeper ties with Moscow and described him as the “absolute front-runner in the presidential race.” Putin, however, said he was ready to work with whoever becomes the next US president.
“He is a very flamboyant man, very talented, no doubt about that… He is the absolute leader of the presidential race, as we see it today. He says that he wants to move to another level of relations, to a deeper level of relations with Russia. How can we not welcome that? Of course we welcome it,” Putin said during his traditional end-of-year Q&A session with journalists.
The Russian president however refrained from commenting on Trump’s pre-election rhetoric.
Everything that is related to “issues of internal politics – the rhetoric he uses for propping up his popularity,” are not a matter of concern to Russia. “It’s not our business to assess his work in this respect.”
Earlier, in the same Q&A session, Putin had said he was prepared to work with whoever turns out to be victorious in the US presidential election in 2016 …. https://www.rt.com/usa
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2015/12/putin-says-talented-trump-is-absolute.html
