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Vladimir Putin Backs Trump, Calling Impeachment Charges 'Completely Made Up'



Halfway across the world from Washington, D.C., where President Trump on Wednesday became just the third president in U.S. history to be impeached, Trump's counterpart in the Kremlin made clear that he has the American president's back.

During his annual marathon news conference in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed the charges against Trump as "completely made up."

"The Democratic party, which lost the elections, is now trying to revise this history through the means that they have at their disposal — first by accusing Trump of collusion with Russia. But then it turned out there was no collusion," Putin said Thursday during the hours-long event, echoing the arguments put forth by Trump and his Republican colleagues in Congress. "It could not form the basis for impeachment, and now there is this made-up pressure on Ukraine." [the Congressional Republicans sharing the same dishonest talking points with the KGB thug leader of Russia...The Gipper would be so proud...]
Trump faces the possibility of removal from office, after the House on Wednesday night approved two articles of impeachment — abuse of power, for withholding hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. military aid to Ukraine, and obstruction of the congressional investigation into the matter. Every Republican voted against impeachment.

Now the process should head to the GOP-controlled Senate, where a trial is expected.

Putin said he believes the president's job remains safe because of his party's majority: "It's unlikely they will want to remove their party member from office based on what are, in my opinion, completely fabricated reasons."