by Shane Trejo, Big League Politics:

Russian President Vladimir Putin is calling out the “rot” in the U.S. System over the nakedly political persecution of former U.S. President Donald Trump.

Putin made his remarks on Tuesday during the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.

“The things that are happening to Trump are persecution of a political competitor… That is what it is. And it is done in the full view of the US public and the entire world,” he said, adding that the U.S. “cannot claim the right to teach others democracy” due to their immense hypocrisy.

“[The US] demonstrates what they called in Soviet times ‘the bestial scowl of imperialism’,” Putin said.