American Patriots Support... Vladimir Putin?

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🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Why are nationalists in the U.S. supporting Putin?

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0:00.0	This is on the media's midweek podcast. I'm Michael Lohanger.
0:05.0	Former President current candidate Donald Trump is back in the news with more
0:11.0	incendiary comments about Russia.
0:13.4	The former president told his supporters yesterday
0:15.9	that he would encourage Russia to do, quote,
0:19.0	whatever the hell they want to any NATO member country
0:22.3	that did not meet its spending obligations.
0:24.4	And he compared his own legal woes to the trials of recently deceased Russian
0:29.3	opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
0:31.8	I got indicted four times.
0:33.4	I have eight or nine trials, all because of the fact that I'm,
0:37.1	you know this, all because of the fact that I'm in politics.
0:39.7	It's a lot of, a lot of.
0:40.7	A lot of. A lot of. A lot of.
0:42.0	It is a form of Navalny. It is a form of communism or fascism. And then in a Fox Town Hall
0:49.1	he praised Russia for being a war machine. They defeated Hitler, they defeated Napoleon, you know they're a war machine. They defeated Hitler, they defeated Napoleon,
0:54.0	you know, they're a war machine.
0:55.0	But Trump's Russia suck-upary is not unique to him.
0:59.0	Not long after Putin launched the war in February 2022,
1:03.4	Far-right Conservatives and white nationalists
1:05.8	gathered in Orlando, Florida
1:07.7	for the America First Political Conference.
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