Hillary Clinton blasted Donald Trump on Thursday for asserting that the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin, was a better leader than President Obama, saying Mr. Trump’s praise for the authoritarian leader of an adversarial power "is not just unpatriotic and insulting to the people of our country, as well as to our commander in chief, it is scary.”
On Wednesday night, Trump insisted his praise for Putin was deserved because the Russian president has an “82% approval rating”.