By Blake Haas
BLOOMINGTON – Just a day after a historic summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin and questions surrounding election meddling, a former chairman of the Illinois Republican Party is calling out President Trump for taking Putin’s side on election meddling.
During a summit between the two presidents held in Finland, President Trump announced that the Russians had ‘zero collusion’ with the 2016 election.
“[For President Trump] to get up there and take his [President Putin’s] side, if you are a conservative Republican your head should be exploding today,” added Pat Brady, former chairman for the Illinois Republican Party and former federal and state prosecutor. “This is what we have been fighting for forever and [President Trump] just undid a whole bunch of it. If you are in Europe, he just made a new world order, too. We are the number one superpower and he [changed] that in the last 24 hours.”
President Trump added that the probe into the 2016 election meddling has had a negative impact on the relationships between the United States and Russia, but Brady added that is not the case.
“The thing here is that people get killed, countries get run over and the United States gets damaged and there is so much more damage he does by having these idiotic press conferences and making these statements [refering to the 2016 election],” added Brady. “He put himself over America and that is disturbing.”
Brady added that the goal for President Putin is to bring back the Soviet Union that ended in 1991.
“Putin is a murderer and he is a bad bad man. He is the former head of the KGB. Read the story about how they [KGB] killed a guy with a tip of an umbrella one day,” added Brady. “He kills people. His goal in life is to restore the Soviet Union. That was the biggest crime in history to him is that there is no more Soviet Union. That’s the cold war that we won and maintained for years.”
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