Russian Foreign Minister: ’So Many Pu**ies Around Your Presidential Campaign’
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CNN’s Christiane Amanpour burst into embarrassed laughter during her interview with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov who injected his rather unique outsider’s view of the U.S. presidential election.
Lavrov was asked to comment on Donald Trump’s “Pussy Riot moment,” a reference to Russia’s premiere feminist punk-rock protest band and the recent audio leaked of Trump’s so-called locker-room talk.
The foreign minister prefaced his remarks with an apology for his poor English and an admission that it probably wouldn’t sound “decent,” then launched this beauty:
“There are so many pussies around your presidential campaign on both sides that I prefer not to comment about this.”
“Oh, my goodness! I wasn’t expecting that,” Amanpour said laughing.
In a more serious portion of the interview, Lavrov stated that despite the rumors, Russia has played no part in influencing the U.S. elections.
"Now everybody in the United States is saying that it is Russia which is running the presidential debate," he said. "We have not seen a single fact, a single proof."
"It's flattering, of course, to get this kind of attention -- for a regional power, as President Obama called us some time ago," Lavrov added.
Russia filed a complaint with the United Nations recently against Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, who criticized Trump and other right-wing European politicians as “demagogues and political fantasists.” But Lavrov stressed that Trump’s name was never mentioned in the complaint. He said Russia was sending the message that al-Hussein acted inappropriately “because his position is not about passing a ruling or passing judgment on sovereign states."
As for Hillary Clinton, Lavrov thinks of her fondly as they worked together when she was secretary of state but he said he’s only casually keeping up with the election.
"I feel sorry for what is happening now in Russian-American relations," he added. "I can only reaffirm that it was not us who started this very unhealthy kind of relationship, and this started long before Ukraine, long before Syria."
Despite his serious comments, it will be Lavrov’s P-word moment that carries. Mostly because it’s true.
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