To Kill or Not to Kill

So what are Trump's real views about killing? State killing, that is. Without spending any time, presumably, thinking about the question of moral equivalence, Trump's reply after being asked on Fox News whether Putin was a "killer", was, "well what about the United States?" America was no innocent in the killing department, he suggested. Well, this argument will run and run, but let's look at the facts, something Trump doesn't like to do, unless it's alternative facts. Putin, it is alleged, has been behind the killing of  "opposition" figures, including outspoken journalists, and, of course, the most notorious of the lot, the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, the former officer in the FSB who fled from prosecution in his country, sought political asylum in Britain and ended up dead in November 2006 from radioactive polonium-10 poisoning. A British judge ruled that Putin was "probably" responsible. Now is there an equivalent to this assassination in the United States? Not that I can think of! People have said, hey what about the CIA trying to assassinate Fidel Castro with a poisoned cigar etc? Moral equivalence is a tricky one here. But there is an argument that might say, ok, that was a US-government-sanctioned attempt to kill another foreign leader but it was part of a strategy to rid the world of a Communist dictator, supported by the Kremlin, during the most dangerous part of the Cold War which potentially put the whole planet at risk of nuclear annihilation. Not quite the same as waking up one morning and saying to your heavies:"This swinehood journalist writing rubbish against me should be eliminated."
So what could be on Trump's mind? Well, then you have to think of all the extrajudicial armed drone attacks on suspected or known terrorists in Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen etc etc - deadly killings from 15,000ft. But again, there's no moral equivalence here. This is war on terrorism, something that threatens not just the US but the world. Does Trump think the drone war is the same as bumping off opposition folk in Russia? He didn't spell it out, and Fox didn't force him to spell it out. I don't suppose he could spell it out even if he was asked by Congress to do so.
I agree that few governments in the world are absolutely innocent. British Empire history is filled with appalling deeds. French special forces put bombs on board the Greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior, in 1985 when it was anchored in Auckland, New Zealand prior to French nuclear testing, and sank it with the loss of one Greenpeace member. I could go on. But I still think Trump was wrong wrong wrong, and loose with his language, to praise Putin and to belittle his alleged executive kills by highlighting America's lack of innocence. What do you think?