At a certain point, it stopped being surprising that Donald Trump would take Vladimir Putin’s side in regards to…well anything really.  He has made it perfectly clear that he admires the man, and that he’ll take the man’s word over his own intelligence networks.  But now Trump is at the point where he’s parroting the man’s talking points in his own interviews.  When Trump starts acting as a surrogate or representative of the Putin Regime…I mean seriously, where are we then?   When does it stop being a joke that Putin is really leading the country?