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He even tried to calm an inquisitive Kelly by asking: “Isn’t there a pill they can give you?”
Putin said the probe into Russia’s alleged attempts to influence the election via collusion with President Trump’s campaign team was merely “hysteria,” Reuters reported.
He also compared the anti-Russian sentiment in the U.S. to anti-Semitism.
“It’s like saying everything is the Jews’ fault,” said Putin, who placed the blame for Hillary Clinton’s November loss squarely at the feet of the Democratic presidential candidate and members of her party.
Putin deftly brushed off questions about meetings that members of the Trump campaign – including then-Sen. Jeff Sessions – had with Russian diplomat Sergey Kislyak.
“So our ambassador met someone. That's his job. That's why we pay him,” Putin said, according to a translation. “So what? What's he supposed to do, hit up the bars?”
He described the focus on Kislyak's contacts as “catastrophic nonsense.”
I think Putin hit the nail on the head with this comment - Putin said the probe into Russia’s alleged attempts to influence the election via collusion with President Trump’s campaign team was merely “hysteria".
There have been examples of American mass hysterias before. The Salem Witch trials, Japanese American Internment, the Satanic Day Care Scandals of the 1980's (which I remember well as I was a new parent at the time), and there have actually been two Red Scares...one in 1917-1920, and the second Red Scare in 1947-1957 promulgated by Joseph McCarthy.
IMO historians are going to call the current mass hysteria among Democrats and libs the third Red Scare. In the Satanic Day Care Scandals I saw perfectly normal people get completely swept off their moorings by hysteria. It's fascinating and horrifying to watch. There were people convinced you could somehow insert a giant butcher knife into a child's anus without leaving a mark. A problem with hysteria is the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from reality. If you accused today's Democrats of acting like Joseph McCarthy they'd be outraged, but it's spooky to read about the McCarthy years and not draw parallels to the behavior of Democrats today.
Of course, they'll just tell you they are trying to save the world. Even if it means violence...often one of the byproducts of hysteria.
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