5 times Putin has undermined the truth and taken action against those who have challenged him

• Vladamir Putin makes strongman politics look effortless — as a former KGB officer, his deception, disinformation, and violence are beyond imaginable to most. 
• He has been equally "strong and powerful" in undermining truth. 
• On several occasions, Putin denied responsibility for violence and hundreds of deaths, despite evidence pointing to the Russian state's involvement. 
• Russian opposition leader, Boris Nemtsov, called President Putin "our expert in lying" and said "he is a pathological liar," before Nemtsov was assasinated in Moscow. 

At the now infamous Helsinki press conference held after the summit meeting between Presidents Trump and Putin, Trump indicated he was impressed with Putin's denial of Russian interference in the 2016 US election.

"I have great confidence in my intelligence people," Trump said, "but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial."See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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