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The Kremlin Doesn't Think Trump's Putin/Clinton Ad Is Funny

  • Kremlin `negative' about Republican's video, Peskov says
  • Criticizing Russia `mandatory' in U.S. elections, Kremlin says
Russian President Vladimir Putin begins the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit Leaders Retreat II in Vladivostok on Sept. 9, 2012, with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vietnam President Truong Tan Sang.

Russian President Vladimir Putin begins the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit Leaders Retreat II in Vladivostok on Sept. 9, 2012, with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vietnam President Truong Tan Sang.

Photographer: JIM WATSON/AFP/GettyImages

The Kremlin criticized a video posted by the Republican U.S. presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s campaign that mocks the Democratic Party’s leading contender Hillary Clinton as too weak to deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The video posted on Trump’s Instagram account opens with Putin in a judo suit throwing an opponent before cutting to him laughing after a segment that shows Clinton barking like a dog. The ad, which also features a jihadi terrorist, says the U.S. doesn’t “need to be a punchline” when facing its “toughest opponents” before urging voters to support Trump and “make America great again!”