# GOP senator blasts Trump for praising Putin: ‘He is a murderer!’

https://mins.news/en/video/107960

- CNN, 2026-10-20 13:31 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVBCyDXwB-I

> Republican Sen. Thom Tillis sharply criticized President Donald Trump’s willingness to hold a trilateral Ukraine war summit with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, calling the proposed meeting “absurd.” Tillis challenged Trump’s claim that Russia has been “fine on Ukraine,” saying Putin is playing the president like a fiddle.

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