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Trump assailed for phoning Putin, applauded meeting Saudi dictator

March 25, 2018 By Finian Cunningham, Russia Today , ,
Donald Trump sparked outrage this week in the US over his congratulatory phone call to Russian leader Vladimir Putin on his re-election. But his obscene indulgence of a Saudi despot in the White House hardly ruffled any concern. How disconnected from reality can you get? There was furious reaction across US media to news that Trump phoned Russia’s President Putin to congratulate him on his landslide election victory last weekend. Republicans and Democrats were up in arms about what is just basic protocol of one leader calling another to express customary election compliments. After all, former president Barack Obama did the same when Putin won the previous 2012 presidential election.

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