Russian President Vladimir Putin praised U.S. President-elect Donald Trump as an experienced and intelligent politician but said he did not believe Trump was safe after attempts on his life. Trump was wounded in an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania in July. In a separate incident in September, a man was charged with attempted assassination after allegedly positioning himself with a rifle at one of Trump’s Florida golf courses. Speaking to reporters in Kazakhstan after a summit, Putin said he had been shocked by the way the U.S. election campaign had unfolded.
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