Hillary Clinton joked that Russian president Vladimir Putin’s ability to effectively decide when he was in office had a “certain attraction to it” during a question-and-answer session Wednesday at the Brookings Institution.
“I don’t admire very much about Mr. Putin, but the idea you could stand up and say, ‘I will be your next president,’ that does have a certain attraction to it,” Clinton said, drawing laughter from the audience.
Clinton’s quip about Putin called to mind the Saturday Night Live impersonation of her as a power-hungry politician who insisted to “citizens” that “you will elect me, I will be your leader.”
Clinton made the remarks after her speech defending the Iran nuclear deal at Brookings. On a more serious note, Clinton said that she is “in the category of people who wanted to do more in reaction to the annexation of Crimea” last year. Russia’s objective “is to stymie, to confront, to undermine American power whenever and wherever they can,” she added in response to how the United States could control Putin’s aggression on the European continent.
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smittoon
This Woman speaks absolute garbage and wants to be President , just another puppet mouth price for the one percent club yo which she and her Husband are part of .