Clinton: Putin’s ability to grab presidency has a certain appeal
There’s not much to like about Vladimir Putin, Hillary Clinton remarked Wednesday. But there just might be one potential perk to being the Russian leader.
“I don’t admire very much about Mr. Putin, but the idea you can stand up and say ‘I will be your next president’? That has a certain, you know attraction to it,” the former secretary of state joked during a question-and-answer session following her address on the Iran nuclear deal at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
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.