Politics

Trump Claims He’s the Putin Whisperer: ‘I Was the Apple of His Eye’

WEIRD FLEX

The former president has added a strange new claim to his catalog of Putin boasts.

Allison Quinn
Allison Quinn 

News Editor

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump attend a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan June 28, 2019.
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Allison Quinn

Allison Quinn

News Editor

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