Thanks Rand – you get it! Trump praises maverick Rand Paul who is his ONLY Republican defender over the Putin disaster
President Trump arrived home after a presser in Helsinki with Vladimir Putin without fanfare
Trump’s own political party and allies of the president criticized his performance
Said Putin was ‘extremely strong and powerful in his denial today’ of meddling
Was condemned as ‘treasonous’ by ex-CIA director John Brennan and others
But Rand Paul came to his defense on Tuesday morning saying that Trump was right to meet with Putin in pursuit of peace
By FRANCESCA CHAMBERS
DAILYMAIL.COM17 July 2018
An unlikely figure within the GOP came to the president’s defense on Tuesday morning as President Trump took a beating in the press for his news conference with Vladimir Putin — Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul.
The libertarian lawmaker, who has been a swing vote for Trump’s agenda, said that the Republican president had been unfairly hit with an ‘onslaught’ of allegations since he took office, when it was Hillary Clinton’s campaign that is known to have funded a dossier of dirt on her opponent.
Trump promptly rewarded him with a tweet that proclaimed ‘you really get it’ as he watched the reviews of his performance in Helsinki roll in.
President Trump found himself with few allies on Tuesday morning after a tour of Europe that concluded with a news conference that was dubbed ‘treasonous’ and ‘disgusting’ by friends and foes alike.
Trump appeared to side with Putin over his own intelligence agency heads on the issue of Russian meddling in the 2016 election. He also claimed that the United States was responsible for the toxic relationship between Washington and Moscow.
Trump was utterly shredded for the claims, even by trusted allies. Hosts on Fox News, as well as CNN, ripped him for befriending the former KGB spy who disrupted the presidential election.
The White House went underground on Tuesday as Trump was skewered across the networks, with the exception of Paul, who said the ‘president did a good thing by meeting with Putin’ and called it as a ‘mistake for people to try to turn this into a partisan escapade.’
‘This is an extraordinary thing about President Trump that should be lauded and not little, is that he is willing to meet with adversaries to try to prevent us from having World War III,’ Paul told CBS.
The Kentucky senator said that Trump ‘has undergone an onslaught of a year, year and a half of a partisan investigation accusing him of somehow colluding with the Russians.’
‘We all have now concluded and all understand that the investigation was started by partisans, James Clapper and John Brennan, who started the investigation at the behest of the Clinton campaign, who paid somebody in Russia to come up with a dossier,’ he stated. ‘So it’s funny that we keep talking about Trump and Russia, when in fact the only person actually known to pay Russian agents was Hillary Clinton, who paid a British spy who then paid British agents who concocted dirt on Trump.’
The president said in response: ‘Thank you @RandPaul, you really get it! “The President has gone through a year and a half of totally partisan investigations – what’s he supposed think?” ‘
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