RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trump on his relationship with Putin, November 2013: ‘I can tell you that he’s very interested in what we’re doing here today. He’s probably very interested in what you and I are saying today, and he’s going to be seeing it in some form.’ -In an interview with MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts to promote the Trump-owned Miss Universe pageant, when asked, “Do you have a relationship with Vladimir Putin?”
-Melissa Etehad, “In His own Conflicting Words,” The Los Angeles Times, July 25, 2018