CNN's Brianna Keilar and Jim Sciutto on Wednesday noted an alarming trend in President Donald Trump's rhetoric, which they said was sounding more and more like that of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
After Keilar read Trump's social media post from earlier in the day when he threatened Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and accused him of being a "dictator," she stated flatly that "Trump sounds like Putin."
"Yeah," Sciutto concurred. "It's not just an overlap of talking points here from Trump and Putin, it is a mirror image of those talking points."
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Sciutto went on to add that Trump falsely blamed Ukraine for the war despite the fact that Russia invaded the country completely unprovoked more than three years ago.
He then singled out Trump's declaration that Zelenskyy was a "dictator" was being particularly troublesome.
"Remember [Putin] said that Zelenskyy was a Nazi and created this whole Nazi threat there, which doesn't exist and is also just an asinine point to make, given that Putin is an actual dictator... who killed his opponent," he said. "I mean, he goes so far as to kill his opponent, poisoning Alexei Navalny, having his spy services do that. So we now have the U.S. president endorsing Kremlin positions on this war."
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