GOP lawmaker refuses to compare Obama, Putin
The chairman of the House Oversight Committee is refusing to compare Vladimir Putin’s leadership to President Obama’s.
Asked about Donald Trump’s comments that the Russian president is a stronger leader than Obama, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) rejected the comparison.
{mosads}He said the U.S. And Russia “have a very different form of government. … It’s a dictatorship over there. It’s a totally different equation.”
He did say he thought Trump would be a much better president than Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee.
Watch the video above to hear Chaffetz in his own words.
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