Lindsey Graham: Trump’s Putin ‘Schizophrenia’ Is Disturbing

Lindsey Graham: Trump's Putin 'schizophrenia' is disturbing (Politico)

Donald Trump’s distorted view of Russian President Vladimir Putin — or his “schizophrenia,” as Lindsey Graham put it Thursday morning — is disturbing, the South Carolina senator said.

Trump has repeatedly embraced the Russian strongman, calling it “a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected” in a campaign statement in December. More recently, Trump praised Putin as a man who has “been a leader far more than our president has been a leader” during NBC’s commander in chief forum last month.

“Well, all I can say [is] that schizophrenia that you see is a little bit disturbing to me,” Graham, a colorful and frequent Trump critic, told “CBS This Morning.” “I see Putin as a dictator. He’s destroyed every semblance of democracy in his own country.”