Clemons: ‘Nothing Similar’ Between Obama’s Hot Mic Moment with Medvedev and Flynn’s Contact with Russia

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CLEMONS: "It’s absolutely — I’m sorry, but it’s absolutely not the case. Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, but as he’s come into office, he’s been engaged in a love fest with Vladimir Putin at the time when, you know, I talked about alleviating sanctions before they’ve done anything of the things they’ve supposed to do on Crimea. As we’ve seen them hack not only in the U.S. democracy, but in other governments across Europe. As they’ve harassed and beaten up U.S. diplomats. All of this going on while other, you know, Roger Stone and Paul Manafort with various kinds of alleged interaction with the Russian government, it looks as if the appearances are that these guys basically are advocating for Russia’s interests at a time when you’ve got a U.S. President coming in without having weighed any of the other issues. And when you see calls with Putin that are really warm and fuzzy exercises, and you see Angela Merkel beat up, Australia beat up, this has created a lot of fear and lack of trust in the United States. So there is nothing similar to the Obama discussion and what Michael Flynn did in potentially, allegedly potentially offering Russia some flexibility down the road once they came into office."