Putin "actively hoping" to get Donald Trump back as president: Ret. general

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Putin authorized "influence operations aimed at denigrating President Biden's candidacy and the Democratic Party, supporting Trump, undermining public confidence in the electoral process and exacerbating socio-political divisions in the U.S," the Office of the Director of National Intelligence report said.
53% : Trump, the frontrunner in the 2024 GOP presidential primary, has long praised and even quoted the Russian leader on the campaign trail.
41% : "McCaffrey, a decorated Vietnam War veteran, was in the U.S. Army for 32 years and later served as director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy under President Bill Clinton.
37% : "However, regarding the question of whether Trump obstructed justice, the report said, "The President's efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests.
35% : Russia has denied allegations of election inference and Trump has called the Mueller report a "complete and total exoneration.
34% : "Even Vladimir Putin...says that Biden's, and this is a quote, politically motivated persecution of his political rival is very good for Russia because it shows the rottenness of the American political system, which cannot pretend to teach others about democracy," Trump quoted Putin as saying, who made the comment during an economic forum in eastern Russia in September.
24% : In March 2021, a U.S. intelligence report was released that alleged Russia also tried to help Trump in the 2020 election, but that there was no evidence of foreign voter fraud.
18% : At a rally in Durham, New Hampshire, earlier this month, the former president quoted Putin who criticized the numerous criminal charges that Trump is currently facing, all of which the former president has pleaded not guilty to.
18% : The Kremlin denied allegations that it interfered in the 2020 election, which Trump ultimately lost to Biden.
10% : Meanwhile, the relationship between Trump and Putin has been criticized since the former president's 2016 run when questions of Russia's alleged election interference and possible coordination with the Trump campaign arose.

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