President says US must look seriously at case but suggests media should be looking into China
President Donald Trump said the United States must look “very seriously” into the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, but that his administration had not yet seen any proof.
“I think we have to look at it very seriously, if it’s the case,” he said, before talking at length about his diplomatic efforts in North Korea and nuclear non-proliferation in Russia. “I don’t know exactly what happened. It’s tragic. It’s terrible, it shouldn’t happen. We haven’t had any proof yet, but I will take a look.
“It is interesting that everybody’s always mentioning Russia … but I think probably China at this point is a nation that you should be talking about much more so than Russia.”
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This week the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, revealed that tests at a military laboratory had “identified unequivocally” that the Kremlin critic had been poisoned with nerve agent novichok and called the case an “attempted murder”.
On Friday Nato condemned the attack as “horrific” and called for those responsible to be brought to justice. “Time and again we have seen critics of the [Vladimir Putin] regime attacked and threatened. Some have been killed,” said spokesperson Piers Cazelet.
Russia has until now not opened a criminal investigation and said there is no evidence yet of a crime. On Friday it continued to offer alternative theories for why Navalny fell ill two weeks ago, ranging from stress, dieting or a “simple lack of breakfast”.
Trump did not take as strong a stance as the state department, which earlier on Friday expressed grave concern about the finding that Navalny was poisoned.
In a meeting in Washington earlier on Friday, deputy secretary of state Stephen Biegun told Russian ambassador Anatoliy Antonov that Moscow’s use of this chemical weapon would be a clear violation of its obligations under the chemical weapons convention.
“The deputy secretary urged Russia to cooperate fully with the international community’s investigation into this attack,” department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said in a statement.
Navalny is the most popular and prominent opponent of President Vladimir Putin, and the German announcement this week that he was poisoned by a nerve agent has raised the possibility of further western sanctions against Moscow.
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ALWAYS DEFENDING RUSSIA BETWEEN THE LINES, WHY? WHAT HAS CHINA TO DO WITH NAVALNY?
“It is interesting that everybody’s always mentioning Russia … but I think probably China at this point is a nation that you should be talking about much more so than Russia.”
Idiot. When was the last time China used chemical weapons in Europe? When did China annex part of another country, or bring down a civilian plane? You need to remove your head from up Putin’s ass, and see what’s going on in the world.
China released COVID-19 to the entire world. China annexed Tibet and broke the treaty for Hong Kong. A Malaisian airliner went missing when close to chinese airspace few years ago.
Maybe so, but they are still not as dangerous as Russia. If Trump had spent as much time attacking Russia, as he does China, I would applaud him.
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In 2016 ‘Trump waded into the Litvinenko poisoning saying he had seen “no evidence” of Mr Putin’s involvement, adding: “They say a lot of things about me that are untrue too.”
‘The front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination has previously said he felt a “great honour” when Mr Putin praised him as an “absolute leader”.
Then as now, Trump is always ready to lick the tiny poisoner’s tiny jackboots.
Yep, that’s why he is arming all the countries to Moskovia’s eastern flank, just so he can lick Putin’s boots………
He defends putler on Navalny, just as he did on Litvineko. That is beyond contemptible. He writes groveling letters to a rat and insults an American war hero. He is quoted by Bolton and Volker as making extremely disparaging remarks about Ukraine. Facts are facts.
What he has in common with putler is psychopathy. It is not uncommon in politics and business. Psychopaths have no conscience and no regard for anyone other than themselves. Both he and the rat display the textbook symptoms.
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That the Trumpet is stuck in Pew-tin’s ass is well-known. How deep he resides in the stink hole has been a mystery because you can’t even see the idiot’s feet anymore. This stupid statement substantiates the idiot’s idiocy. The Trumpet lacks even common sense.