claim: says american polling shows russian president vladimir putin has "an 80 percent approval rating."
author: donald trump
evidence_1: oct 22, 2015 ... western officials have questioned whether russia is actually targeting moderate  rebels in a move to bolster its flagging ally, syrian president bashar assad.  related: assad goes to moscow to say thanks to putin. putin's rating had been  hovering above 80 percent since spring 2014, when russia annexed ...
evidence_2: mar 6, 2016 ... how to understand putin's jaw-droppingly high approval ratings ... moscow —  russian president vladimir putin has an 83 percent approval rating. ... that is  reflected in the polls, which show that support for putin has barely dropped, even  though only 45 percent of russians believe their country is on the ...
evidence_3: feb 21, 2017 ... washington, d.c. -- americans see russian president vladimir putin in a  better light than two years ago. twenty-two percent now say they have a  favorable opinion of putin, up from 13% in 2015 and the highest percentage with  a favorable view of the russian leader since 2003. his unfavorable rating is ...
evidence_4: jun 26, 2017 ... russian president vladimir putin has raised stalin's profile as the victory of world  war ii rather than the strongman of the gulag. ... the russian leader's approval  rating — as measured by levada — hasn't dropped below 80 percent since he  annexed crimea in 2014, and he enjoys daily praise from the ...
evidence_5: jul 17, 2017 ... however, only 7 percent of republican voters told pollsters they believed the  trump campaign helped russia to interfere in the election. overall, the poll  shows trump with the lowest six-month approval rating of any president in the  past 70 years. critics say it shows that trump's repeated statements calling ...