What Vladimir Putin says about Donald Trump?
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MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin in an interview aired Sunday called US President-elect Donald Trump intelligent and predicted he would quickly grasp his new level of responsibility and act accordingly.
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"Since he managed to achieve success in business, that shows he is a clever person," the Russian strongman said in an interview with NTV television that has already aired in the country s far east, quoted by TASS news agency.
"If he s clever, that means he will fully and quite quickly grasp a different level of responsibility."
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Putin said that Russia "expects that he will act precisely on this basis."
