Rep. Nadler on Obama Congratulating Putin in 2012: I Don’t Recall What Obama Said

‘A leader of the United States should not congratulate a dictator for a sham election’

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BLITZER: "The President’s supporters point out that President Obama back in 2012 congratulated Putin on his election then. What was different then as opposed to now?"
NADLER: "Well, I don’t know. And I don’t recall what Obama said at the time, but what’s really important is that this is a president, meaning Putin, who just apparently ordered a murder on British soil, who has committed aggression in the Crimea and in Ukraine that we’re opposing supposedly through sanctions, and who just attempted to subvert the American election. Certainly he hadn’t done that in 2012."

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