{"id":5294,"date":"2017-07-13T00:01:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T00:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/trump-says-putin-would-have-preferred-clinton-win\/"},"modified":"2017-07-13T00:01:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T00:01:28","slug":"trump-says-putin-would-have-preferred-clinton-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/trump-says-putin-would-have-preferred-clinton-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Putin would have preferred Clinton win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"description\" readability=\"175\">\n<p>President Donald Trump, battling allegations that Russia helped him win the White House, claimed Wednesday that Vladimir Putin actually would have preferred a Hillary Clinton victory.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_741584\" style=\"width: 412px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/President-Trump.jpg?resize=412%2C263\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"263\" class=\"size-full wp-image-741584\" srcset=\"http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/President-Trump.jpg 412w, http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/President-Trump-300x192.jpg 300w, http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/President-Trump-58x37.jpg 58w, http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/President-Trump-260x166.jpg 260w, http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/President-Trump-200x128.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\"\/><noscript><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/President-Trump.jpg?resize=412%2C263\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"263\" class=\"size-full wp-image-741584\" srcset=\"http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/President-Trump.jpg 412w, http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/President-Trump-300x192.jpg 300w, http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/President-Trump-58x37.jpg 58w, http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/President-Trump-260x166.jpg 260w, http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/President-Trump-200x128.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">US President, Donald Trump<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Decrying what he called a political \u201cwitch hunt,\u201d Trump also came to the defense of his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr, after the release of emails showing his namesake\u2019s embrace of a Russian <a href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/tips-for-house-price-negotiation\/\">offer<\/a> to provide derogatory information about Clinton during the campaign.<\/p>\n<p><!-- between content ad --><\/p>\n<p>The email exchange has been described in some quarters as a possible \u201csmoking gun\u201d in the ongoing investigation by an independent prosecutor into whether Trump\u2019s campaign colluded with Moscow to get the Republican elected.<\/p>\n<p>But in an interview with Pat Robertson of the Christian Broadcasting Network, the billionaire president nonetheless claimed his Russian counterpart would have preferred a win by the Democrat Clinton in 2016.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are many things that I do that are the exact opposite of what he (Putin) would want,\u201d Trump said, even though he got along \u201cvery, very well\u201d with the longtime Russian leader, whom he met in Hamburg last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo what I keep hearing about that he would have rather had Trump, I think \u2018probably not,\u2019 because when I want a strong military, you know she wouldn\u2019t have spent the money on military,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I want tremendous <a href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/the-benefits-of-solar-roofing-for-your-home\/\">energy<\/a> \u2014 we\u2019re opening up coal, we\u2019re opening up natural gas, we\u2019re opening up fracking, all the things that he would hate \u2014 but nobody ever mentions that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said that while he only learned of his son\u2019s 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer \u201ca couple of days ago,\u201d he did not fault Donald Jr for holding the talks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think many people would have held that meeting,\u201d he told the Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the greatest Witch Hunt in political history. Sad!\u201d tweeted Trump, who has kept a low profile since returning from a Group of 20 summit in Germany and was to fly out of Washington again late Wednesday for a visit to France.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u2018Little time\u2019 for TV \u2013<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post reported that the Kremlin controversy has thrust the fledgling White House into \u201cchaos\u201d and left Trump \u201cenraged that the Russia cloud still hangs over his presidency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CNN quoted a top Republican close to the administration as saying it has left the White House \u201cparalyzed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump personally sought Wednesday to dispel the image of an administration in crisis and a president obsessed with TV coverage of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe W.H. is functioning perfectly, focused on HealthCare, Tax Cuts\/Reform &amp; many other things. I have very little time for watching T.V.\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy spilled over Wednesday into the Senate confirmation hearing for Trump\u2019s nominee to <a href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/real-estate-lead-strategies-2\/\">lead<\/a> the FBI, Christopher Wray, chosen after the president fired FBI director James Comey in May in frustration over the Russia probe.<\/p>\n<p>Under questioning, Wray said he had not discussed the investigation \u2014 now in the hands of an independent prosecutor, former FBI director Robert Mueller \u2014 with Trump, and pledged to insulate the agency from political interference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is only one right way to do this job, and that is with strict independence,\u201d Wray said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not consider director Mueller to be on a witch hunt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u2018I love it\u2019 \u2013<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump Jr released emails on Tuesday in which he was told he could get \u201cvery high level and sensitive information\u201d that was \u201cpart of Russia and its government\u2019s support for Mr. Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response, the 39-year-old \u2014 who runs the family <a href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/property-center-nigeria\/\">real estate<\/a> business \u2014 wrote back saying, \u201cif it\u2019s what you say I love it.\u201d He then held a meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya, a woman described in the emails as a \u201cRussian government attorney.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s then-campaign manager, Paul Manafort, and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, also attended the June 2016 meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Jr told Fox News he went to the meeting to see what it was about and didn\u2019t mention it to his father because \u201cthere was nothing to tell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>US intelligence agencies have concluded that Putin approved a mass effort to tilt the election in Trump\u2019s favor, including hacking and leaking embarrassing emails from Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>The latest disclosures all but ensure the president\u2019s son will come under scrutiny by investigators in Congress and at the FBI who are probing whether Trump\u2019s team was in the know.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u2018Fiction\u2019 \u2013<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin, meanwhile, insisted it had no links to the Russian lawyer, and the Russian billionaire identified as a middleman for the Donald Jr meeting also sought to distance himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe never had any contact with this lawyer,\u201d said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. \u201cShe doesn\u2019t have even the slightest relation to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the emails released Tuesday, Rob Goldstone \u2014 a publicist close to the Trumps \u2014 tells Donald Jr about an offer allegedly made by Russia\u2019s general prosecutor to provide the Trump campaign with dirt on Clinton during talks with real estate mogul Aras Agalarov.<\/p>\n<p>But Agalarov dismissed the emails touting him as a go-between for the Trumps and the Kremlin, and said he only vaguely knew Goldstone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this is some sort of fiction. I don\u2019t know who is making it up,\u201d Agalarov told Russia\u2019s Business FM radio station.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a hre=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2017\/07\/trump-says-putin-preferred-clinton-win\/\"> Vanguard <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump, battling allegations that Russia helped him win the White House, claimed Wednesday that &hellip; <a title=\"Trump says Putin would have preferred Clinton win\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/trump-says-putin-would-have-preferred-clinton-win\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump says Putin would have preferred Clinton win<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[525,84,123,842,526],"class_list":["post-5294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opportunities-in-new-markets","tag-donald-trump","tag-real-estate","tag-real-estate-business","tag-trump","tag-us-president"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}