First Thing: Putin bromance has US security experts fearing second Trump term

Trump's support for Putin has intelligence community worried about US interests abroad. Plus, Parvati Shallow's journey from Survivor to life coach

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Donald Trump's continued praise of Vladimir Putin is deepening concerns among experts who predict a second term for the former US president would damage American democracy and its global interests.

What has Trump said about Putin? He called him a genius" after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and recently said Russia should do whatever the hell they" wanted to Nato members that did not contribute enough to the alliance.

Who else denounced the vote? Germany's foreign ministry called it a pseudo-election", while the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said Putin had become addicted to power".