President Donald Trump has received a myriad of positive comments from Russian media prior to his meeting with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, Fox News reported.
Russian journalists often present President Trump as a “political maverick unfairly targeted by his own compatriots.”
Newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda dismissed the U.S. investigation into Trump’s “mythical work for the Kremlin,” and praised Trump for meeting Putin “despite opposition from his own elite and the hysterics of the media.”
Panelists on popular Sunday night talk show “Vecher,” or “Evening,” said Putin goes into Monday’s summit in Helsinki as the clearly stronger figure, notably coming off his hosting of the World Cup.
Russian commentators and editorialists who consider the European Union hostile, troublesome or irrelevant welcomed Trump’s criticism of longtime European allies as “foes” to the U.S.
Russia’s state-run Channel One said Trump’s meetings in Britain and contentious appearance at the NATO summit last week were secondary to Monday’s summit, saying: “After all, he was just passing through Brussels and London on the way to Helsinki.”
Konstantin Kosachev, head of the upper house of parliament’s foreign affairs committee, wrote in Izvestia that Monday’s talks come at a time when “so-called ‘peace-loving’ Europe is afraid of peace talks between U.S. and Russia.”
Russian media did have rather tempered expectations of how much Putin can concretely get from the summit but hoped for progress on solutions for Syria and Mideast tensions.
Heading into the summit, Trump denounced the American news media as the “enemy of the people,” despite constitutional protections for freedom of the press.
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