Last Updated on 05/09/2024 by Arun jain
Vladimir Putin On Thursday said that the roots for Russia Kamala Harris In the 2024 US presidential election, he cited her “charming” laugh as why he preferred her over his longtime sycophant. Donald Trump.
A day after the U.S. charged Russian state media officials and banned Kremlin-linked broadcasters for allegedly trying to influence the election, Putin answered a question about the U.S. election at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, laughingly saying “the favorite candidate”. Joe Biden.
Putin said earlier this year, in an apparently ironic comment, that he Preferred Biden over Trump to be A more predictable “old school” politician-But now that he was out of the race, he said he would endorse Harris.
“If we could name a favorite candidate, it would be Joe Biden but now he is not running,” Putin said. “He has recommended all his colleagues to support Ms Harris and we are going to do the same.”
Putin continued: “Her smile is very attractive. It means that everything is fine and if everything is fine… There were a lot of sanctions against Russia that were introduced and if everything is fine with Mrs. Harris, maybe she came Stay away from things.
Putin wrapped up his comments on the US election by saying: “In the end, it will be the choice of the US people and we will respect that choice” – a comment that is hard to take seriously given the breadth of evidence. His efforts to influence the American people For voting for Trump in previous elections.
His comments came after his Foreign Ministry threatened to retaliate against US media in response to US sanctions on Russian state media. The US on Wednesday announced coordinated measures with the Justice, State and Treasury departments to fight potential election interference, specifically calling out Rossiya Segodnya and subsidiaries RIA Novosti, RT, TV-Novosti, Ruptly and Sputnik.
When federal prosecutors unsealed Money-laundering costs Against two Russia-based employees of RT, Konstantin Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasiva, accused of hiring an American company to produce online content to influence the 2024 election, the State Department announced a new policy “prohibiting visas to certain individuals who, On behalf of media organizations, uses those organizations as a cover for covert activities and is liable to engage in or engage in covert influence”.
“The American people have a right to know when a foreign power is trying to abuse our nation’s free exchange of ideas for its own propaganda,” the US Attorney General said. Merrick Garland said. He accused Moscow of working to achieve a “preferred outcome” in the race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called the US crackdown on Russian media a “witch hunt” and a sign of the “collapse of liberal democracy”. She said Thursday that Russia’s “attacks” on the media “will not go unanswered.”
“Attempts to expel Russian journalists from the territory of the United States, create unacceptable conditions for their work, or any other form of obstruction of their activities—including the use of visa tools—will constitute grounds for adopting symmetric and/or asymmetric retaliatory measures against American media,” Zakharova said on Telegram. .
Trump has long praised Putin, calling him “brilliant” and “very smart.” Trump has also claimed that he will end the war Ukraine In a “day”, fueling concerns that if he is re-elected, he will cut off aid to Kiev.
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