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On the recordFebruary 7, 2017
On Sunday, I and many Americans watched in horror as our President continued to wax poetic on TV about the bromance with President Vladimir Putin. When the host noted ``But he's a killer,'' our President came back with: ``There are a lot of killers. You think our country's so innocent?'' While our country has made many mistakes, we have not yet seen an authoritarian regime brazenly assassinate its political dissenters. The same cannot be said for Putin and the growing list of murder victims and dissenters in Russia, including liberal politician Boris Nemtsov, former Press Minister Mikhail Lesin, former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, and journalist Anna Politkovskaya, to just name a few. There is no moral equivalency between the United States and Russia. We are not yet an autocracy. We are not like Russia, and the President needs to stop relying on alternative facts. ____________________
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Jackie Speier
Democratic · California

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