ABC's George Stephanopoulos confronts Donald Trump over his praise for Vladimir Putin
Putin and Trump traded compliments last week, with the Russian president calling Trump a "very talented" person. Trump embraced Putin's praise as a "great honor."
Like MSNBC's Joe Scarborough before him, Stephanopoulos on Sunday asked Trump about Putin's status as a strongman, including allegations that the Kremlin has been involved in orchestrating the deaths of political opponents and journalists.
Stephanopoulos particularly pressed Trump on his Friday "Morning Joe" comments, in which he said that "our country does a lot of killing, also.
"What killing sanctioned by the US government is like killing journalists?" Stephanopoulos said.
Trump then said, as he charged last week, that Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton killed "thousands and thousands, and even hundreds of thousands of people" with her supposedly "horrible, horrible decisions."
"That's not killing by the United States government though. That's not the same -" Stephanopoulos interjected.
Trump then said there was no evidence that Putin or his government have participated in the killing of journalists.