No on Putin - he wants a weak person and Obama/HRC fit that bill. Trump is the last guy Putin wants in the office of President of the USA. The reason HRC said that about Putin/Trump was to project her own machinations with Putin on to Trump. The left always projects their reflection on the other team...always. Example - When a conservative is called out for being racist by a leftist it isn't because the conservative is racist, it is because the leftist is a racist and is projecting their own racism on the conservative in order to make the leftist appear non-racist.

The left is all about fiction, everything they do and say is a fiction, usually to cover for their own bad acts.

None of this is strange, this is all very normal for communists. We're just seeing communists unveil themselves in a way we haven't seen before in this country but this has all been seen in other communist countries.