VLADIVOSTOK. Sept 12 (Interfax) - The criminal cases against Donald Trump are political persecution, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
"As for the persecution of Trump, I believe that everything happening at the moment is good. Because it demonstrates the rottenness of the American political system, which cannot pretend to teach others about democracy," Putin said at a plenary session of the Eastern Economic Forum.
"Everything happening to Trump is political persecution of a political rival. That's what it is. And this is happening before the eyes of the United States public and entire world," Putin said.
This is how the United States has exposed its domestic problems, Putin said. "In this sense, this is good if they try to fight us over something, because it shows who is fighting us, it shows what was called 'the bestial grin of American imperialism' in the Soviet era," he said.