Tue 12 September 2023:
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that the prosecution of former American President Donald Trump was politically motivated, and that it highlighted how “rotten” the American political system is.
Putin also stated that big changes in the U.S.-Russia relationship were unlikely regardless of who the country’s next president would be in remarks made at a forum in the city of Vladivostok in Russia’s Far East.
“As for the persecution of Trump, for us, in the current environment, it’s good because it shows the rottenness of the American system,” Putin said at an economic forum in the far eastern city of Vladivostok.
“It is a politically motivated persecution of one’s competitor.” Putin, who served in the Soviet security services, added: “And this shows who we are fighting .
.. As they said in Soviet times: ‘the bestial face of American imperialism.'” Relations between Washington and Moscow, strained by a litany of issues under Putin, have hit new lows since the Kremlin launched large-scale hostilities in Ukraine last year.
Putin said he did not expect any change in US foreign policy stance towards Russia regardless of “whoever will be elected president” next year.
He accused Washington of stoking anti-Russian feelings among ordinary Americans.
“Current authorities have directed American society in an anti-Russian spirit,” the Kremlin chief said.
“They’ve done it and now somehow turning this ship in the other direction will be very difficult.”
Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, is facing a series of criminal cases in which he is charged, among other things, with trying to overturn his 2020 presidential election defeat by Joe Biden.
Putin said what was happening now in the United States demonstrated “all the rottenness of the American system” and the persecution of a political opponent for political reasons.
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