Top US Republican Senator John McCain is questioning the so–called “America First” policy in the administration of US President Donald Trump, citing his belief in Russian President Vladimir Putin.
McCain made the comments in a statement on Saturday after Trump said he believed Putin when he said Moscow did not meddle in the 2016 election that made him the president of the United States.
“There’s nothing ‘America First’ about taking the word of a KGB colonel over that of the American intelligence community,” McCain said.
After talking with Putin at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting in Vietnam, Trump said aboard US Air Force One that, “Every time he [Putin] sees me he says, ‘I didn’t do that,’ and I really believe that when he tells me that, he means it.”
He added that he “can’t stand there and argue” with the Russian leader.
According to McCain, “Vladimir Putin does not have America’s…