Page 3 - Congratulating Dictators News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

That was some of the reaction on capitol hill to president's call to vladimir putin. in a statement senator john mccain said an american president does not lead the free world by congratulating dictators on winning sham elections. president trump insulted every russian citizen who is denied the right to vote in a free and fair election. >> thank you. >> and joining us now here in new york, former nato allied commander, retired four star navy admiral, he is chief international security and diplomacy analyst for nbc news. always great to have you with us. >> good to see you. >> your reaction to ...

Election observers observed instance of intimidation and voter coercion. cameras caught instances of people literally stuffing ballot boxes. senator john mccain released an angry statement in response to trump's congratulatory call which read an american president does not lead the free world by congratulating dictators on winning sham elections. trump's call came just days after the u.s. placed new sanctions on russia for interfering in our election and he made it despite an apparent russian-orchestrated assassination attempt on a former spy that involved the deployment of a nerve agent on th...

The u.s. as policy doesn't try to condone the anti-democratic activities there. so you just saw trump ignore that warning in public, and in his private call to putin as well. you could say, hey, let's be fair. maybe trump missed the advice. but here is what is new in this "washington post" report tonight, and why that's unlikely. it says the warning in his briefing was in all caps letters stating do not congratulate, which as everyone knows shouting in a security memo. the report also says trump chose not to be heed talking points from agents to condemn putin about this recent poisoning of a f...

Congratulating dictators on winning sham elections. and by doing so with vladimir putin, president trump insulted every russian citizen who was denied the right to vote in a free and fair election to determine their country's future. and lindsey graham said this. >> what is disappointing is president trump didn't mention the two people in britain or the continued interference in our election. every time you talk to putin and you give him a pass, that emboldens him. it's clear to me we're not sending the right message to putin about his behavior here in our own backyard, and we had a chance to ...

Not come up in the phone call. here's abc's senior white house correspondent cecilia vega. >> reporter: the announcement came from president trump himself -- he will soon meet with russia's vladimir putin. and that's not all. >> i had a call with president putin and congratulated him on the victory, his electoral victory. >> reporter: that did not sit well with republican senator john mccain. he bashed the president, saying, "an american president does not lead the free world by congratulating dictators on winning sham elections." the white house today refused to say whether the russian electi...