bY CRIMSON TAZVINZWA ~~ President Donald Trump has already reached an agreement with one top Russian government official, who appears to be in lockstep with the U.S. leader, at least on Twitter, over his assessment of White House-Kremlin relations.
The Russian government has blamed the United States for the dire state of relations between the two superpowers for years, accusing it of launching unilateral sanctions, trying to stir up unrest in Russia and its former Soviet satellites and, most recently, of inventing the election meddling story.
In a related story; during an interview Sunday on ABC News’ “This Week,” White House national security adviser John Bolton tried to explain the deeper meaning of Trump’s “rigged witch hunt” tweets.
President Donald Trump, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin pose for a photo during the G20 summit in Hamburg Germany, July 7, 2017.more +
“I think that what he’s suggesting is that his political opponents in the United States for well over a year and a half have been trying to say that somehow he’s a dupe of the Russian Intelligence Services, that he’s an agent of the Kremlin, that he’s been compromised by Russia, that he’s linked to Russia, that he takes orders from Vladimir Putin,” Bolton said. “I mean, really the conspiracies are about as obscure as you can imagine, just subjects of people’s imagination. That’s what he’s talking about.”
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