Friday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said his “stomach turned” when President Donald Trump called Russian President Vladimir Putin his good friend.
Cooper asked, “Senator, I mean, I’ve asked this question to a lot of people, but you have seen a lot of these kinds of summits. Did anything come out of this in your mind?”
Blumenthal said, “Nothing came out of this summit. It was a nothing burger. It was a shrug of the shoulders. But I will tell you, Anderson, my stomach turned when I heard the president of the United States characterize Vladimir Putin as his fabulously good friend. Vladimir Putin is a war criminal. He has directed soldiers to kill women and children and bury them in mass graves. He’s kidnapping children as we speak. The reality on the ground