'Really creepy': Former Australian PM on Trump's admiration for Putin

>>> THE REPUBLICAN PARTY UNDER DONALD TRUMP AND PARTICULARLY THE RIGHT WING OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ARE VERY SYMPATHETIC TO VLADIMIR PUTIN. I MEAN, I'VE BEEN WITH TRUMP AND PUTIN. TRUMP IS IN AWE OF PUTIN. WHEN YOU SEE TRUMP WITH PUTIN, AS I HAVE ON A FEW OCCASIONS, HE IS LIKE THE 12-YEAR-OLD BOY THAT GOES TO HIGH SCHOOL AND MEETS THE CAPTAIN OF THE FOOTBALL TEAM. MY HERO. IT IS REALLY CREEPY. IT IS REALLY CREEPY. >> THAT IS FORMER AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER MALCOLM TURNBULL WEIGHING IN ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN. AND WILLIE, JONATHAN LEMIRE GOT AN UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL VIEW OF THAT REALLY CREEPY RELATIONSHIP, I THINK RUSSIAN THUGS MAN HANDLED HIM AND THROUGH HIM OUT OF THE ROOM AFTER THAT, BUT YEAH, UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WHERE AGAIN DONALD TRUMP SAID HE TRUSTED VLADIMIR PUTIN MORE THAN HE TRUSTED HIS OWN INTELLIGENCE CHIEFS THAT HE HAD APPOINTED. >> YEAH, A MOMENT IN HELSINKI THAT NO ONE WILL EVER FORGET. AND SO FASCINATING TO HEAR ANOTHER WORLD LEADER WHO HAS BEEN IN PRIVATE ROOMS AND WATCHED THAT DYNAMIC TO HAVE HIM SAY IT NOW OUT LOUD THAT THE THING YOU THINK ABOUT TRUMP AND PUTIN IS TRUE. >> AND IT IS WHAT WE AND YOU SAUL ON DISPLAY, TRUMP AND PUTIN MET AND EVEN THE BODY LANGUAGE WAS SO OBVIOUS WHO WAS IN CHARGE OF THAT PARTICULAR SETTING. AND TRUMP SEEMED SO EAGER TO PLEASE WHATEVER VLADIMIR PUTIN WANTED. AND WE KNOW OF COURSE IT HAPPENED BEHIND THE KREENS AND EVEN WITH POLICY. AND AGAIN, WE ARE AT A MOMENT NOW WHERE THE RUSSIAN QUESTIONS CONTINUE TO DOG TRUMP AS WELL THEY SHOULD. HIS PRAISE OF PUTIN HEADING INTO THIS YEAR'S ELECTION, NOW WE KNOW THAT THE INFORMANT AT THE HEART OF THE REPUBLICAN HOUSE COMMITTEE EFFORTS TO IMPEACH JOE BIDEN MAY HAVE BEEN A RUSSIAN ASSET. SO THESE QUESTIONS STILL PERSIST. IF NOTHING ELSE, TRUMP AND HIS COLLEAGUES, USEFUL IDIOTS FOR MOSCOW. >> AND WE KNOW DONALD TRUMP FREEDOMS OF THE KIND OF POWER VLADIMIR PUTIN HAS WHICH IS POWER OF WITHOUT RESTRAINTS OF SAY A CONSTITUTION, A CONGRESS, A MEDIA THAT HOLDS HIM IN CHECK. AND NOW HE'S SAID SOME OF THESE THINGS OUT LOUD THIS TIME AROUND IN A WAY HE WASN'T QUITE SO EXPLICIT ABOUT LAST TIME. >> AND IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. NONE OF IT HAS MADE SENSE FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. YOU CAN HAVE PEOPLE WRITING OP-EDS ON THE TRUMP RIGHT TALKING ABOUT NO RUSSIAN HOAX, NO RUSSIAN CONNECTION, NO RUSSIAN THIS, NO RUSSIAN THAT. THEY WILL HAVE GO A LONG WAY TO EXPLAIN HIS BIZARRE BEHAVIOR OVER THE YEARS STARTING ON OUR SHOW WHEN HE SAID YEAH, PUTIN MAY KILL PEOPLE, BUT WE KILL A LOT OF PEOPLE TOO IN THE UNITED STATES. AT LEAST PUTIN IS A STRONG LEADER. YOU FAST FORWARD TO THE INVASION AND DONALD TRUMP IS SAYING THAT VLADIMIR PUTIN'S BRILLIANT WITH HIS INVASION. THEN SAYING THAT HE WOULD END THE WAR IN UKRAINE IN A DAY. DOESN'T TAKE A LOT OF IMAGINATION TO FIGURE OUT HOW THAT WOULD LOOK. AND HE TALKED ABOUT MUNICH 1938. AND NOW OF COURSE IF YOU LOOK NOW, RIGHT NOW THE UKRAINIAN TROOPS ARE BEING KILLED. THEY ARE DYING. THEY ARE ON THEIR BACK HEEL. RUSSIAN INVADERS ARE PUSHING THEM FORWARD. WHY? BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP TOLD MIKE JOHNSON DON'T HELP THE UKRAINIANS. BY OMISSION HELP VLADIMIR PUTIN. AND MIKE JOHNSON SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE SAID OKAY. >> THERE USED TO BE GUARDRAILS IN THE COLD WAR THAT WE WOULD ASK OURSELVES, YOU'D SAY CAN STALIN KILL PEOPLE IF HE WANTS TO. OF COURSE HE COULD. AND CAN KHRUSHCHEV STILL KILL PEOPLE? I DON'T KNOW. BUT HERE IS A GUY THAT NAVALNY, I THOUGHT THAT WOULD STOP A LOT OF PEOPLE AND SAY I DON'T WANT TO FIGHT ON BEHALF OF UKRAINE, BUT I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE GENERAL POLITICS OF THE EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES AND PEOPLE IN THE NEAR PERIMETER OF RUSSIA. BUT HE'S KILLING PEOPLE. I WOULD THINK THAT WOULD MAKE PEOPLE THE MOST PRO DUMP PERSON IN THE WORLD SAY WAIT A MINUTE, WE'RE NOT ON THAT GUY'S SIDE, HE'S A KILLER. BUT THEY HAVEN'T. NOTHING SEEMS TO WORK IN THE OLD GUARDRAILS WHERE PEOPLE SAY TO A POINT, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN BE WITH SOMEBODY AND YOU SAY LET TRY TO -- I THOUGHT HILLARY FOR A WHILE WOULD DEAL WITH PUTIN IN A DIFFERENT WAY. BUT YOU JUST HAVE TO RECOGNIZE THE GUY IS A KILLER. >> THEY ARE POLITICALLY BOARD. THEY ARE MORALLY ON BOARD. AND IT IS SO SHAMEFUL THAT YOU ACTUALLY HAVE REPUBLICANS, NEWT GINGRICH FOR ONE, SAYING THAT DONALD TRUMP IS NAVALNY. HERE YOU HAVE NAVALNY DYING IN A RUSSIAN GULAG AND IN THE MOST AWFUL WAY AND YOU HAVE DONALD TRUMP FLYING AROUND IN A 757, IN HIS COUNTRY CLUB IN SOUTH FLORIDA, AND AGAIN GETTING IN TROUBLE FOR RAPING A WOMAN? DOESN'T SOUND LIKE NAVALNY BEHAVIOR. FOR STEALING NUCLEAR SECRETS, FOR LYING TO THE FBI, LYING TO THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WITH ABOUT WHETHER HE STILL HAD THE DOCUMENTS. DOESN'T SOUND LIKE NAVALNY, BUT YET THEY SHAMELESSLY DRAW A LINE BETWEEN NAVALNY AND DONALD TRUMP. IT IS -- I'VE USED THE WORD BEFORE OVER THE LAST WEEK OR

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Length: 6min 29sec (389 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 28 2024