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Sen. Blumenthal Tries To Pin Obama’s Weakness On Trump, CNN Anchor Lets It Go

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Virginia Kruta Associate Editor
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Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) claimed that President Donald Trump was weak in standing up to Russia, but he used an example that occurred in 2014 — during the Obama administration — to illustrate his point.

During a segment on CNN’s “New Day” Wednesday morning, Blumenthal likened President Trump to former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in an attempt to compare Russian President Vladimir Putin to Hitler.

Referencing the annexation of Crimea, Blumenthal said, “That is also a lesson we’ve learned from the history of appeasement, prior to World War II, when Neville Chamberlain brought back peace in our time, supposedly, by sacrificing a few powerless pieces of land in Europe, and obviously it failed to satisfy a rapacious Hitler just as a few pieces of land in Europe now like Crimea, which we have sacrificed, is failing to satisfy a rapacious Putin.”

CNN host John Berman let Blumenthal continue in spite of the fact that Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, during the Obama administration — nearly a full year before President Trump had even declared his intent to seek the Republican nomination.