Hillary Clinton called the latest intermingling of Donald Trump with Russian President Vladimir Putin "unseemly" and "beyond one's imagination," the day after the Republican nominee appeared on a Kremlin-backed television network.
"Every day that goes by, this just becomes more and more of a reality television show," Clinton said Friday. "It's not a serious presidential campaign."
Clinton said she wasn't surprised to hear Trump making public statements that would support Putin's interests, but was "certainly disappointed" that Trump continued to identify with and praise such an "autocrat." She suggested Trump does not understand fully what Putin has done.
"No one who wants to assume the responsibility of being president and commander in chief should be making the kind of reckless and dangerous statements, and identifying with a regime that has some aggressive tendencies toward our interests, our values, our friends and allies," Clinton said.
Trump, in an interview Thursday on Russia Today's American outlet, dismissed the assessment of U.S. officials that Russian agents were seeking to interfere in the election. The comments came a day after a forum at which he again praised Putin's leadership.
"If he says great things about me, I'm going to say great things about him," he said at the forum.
