President Trump said Tuesday that “the haters are going crazy” even though he doesn’t know Russian President Vladimir Putin and has no deals in Russia, while the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran happened with “no problem.”

“I don’t know Putin, have no deals in Russia, and the haters are going crazy — yet Obama can make a deal with Iran, #1 in terror, no problem!” the president tweeted.

Mr. Trump has faced criticism from the right and the left for saying the U.S. has a lot of “killers” as well, after Fox News host Bill O’Reilly called Mr. Putin a “killer” in a recent interview with the president.

“What, you think our country is so innocent?” Mr. Trump said.

In the same interview, Mr. Trump also said he didn’t take it as an insult that pro-Russia separatists recently stepped up fighting in Ukraine after a conversation he had with Mr. Putin.

“No, I didn’t, because we don’t really know exactly what that is,” he said. “They’re pro forces. We don’t know, are they uncontrollable? Are they uncontrolled? That happens, also. We’re going to find out. I would be surprised. But we’ll see.”

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