PUTIN ANGRILY RESIGNS FROM TRUMP’S RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN
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By Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
New Yorker
Thursday, Apr 13, 2017
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| PHOTOGRAPH BY JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP / GETTY |
In a stunning rebuke of a former close political ally, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday angrily resigned from Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign.
The abrupt resignation sent shockwaves through the Trump re-election organization, for which Putin had served as chairman.
Putin’s sudden departure, which he announced during a joint appearance with the United States Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, appeared to catch the former ExxonMobil C.E.O. off guard.
“Given the recent actions of Donald Trump, I feel that I can no longer effectively serve as his campaign chairman,” Putin told reporters, while Tillerson looked on awkwardly.
In an unusually emotional comment by the Russian President, a visibly bitter Putin added, “I worked very hard on Trump’s 2016 campaign, and, at the end of the day, I have no more to show for it than Chris Christie does.”
At the White House, a source close to Trump said that he had not yet decided who would take Putin’s place in his 2020 campaign, but that it would “probably be Jared.”
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