Trump's Putin fallout: Inside the White House's tumultuous week of walk backs

[demmiblue]

Executive time began early on Thursday, just after sunrise.

Feeling exasperated and feisty as he awoke in the White House residence, President Trump fired off his grievances on Twitter about how the media had been covering his Helsinki summit. And, refusing to be cowed, Trump gave national security adviser John Bolton an order: to schedule a second summit and officially invite Putin to visit Washington.

The two presidents had already discussed the likelihood of a follow-up meeting, but at Trump’s direction Thursday morning, Bolton sprang into action to make it official, making an overture to the Kremlin. By midafternoon the White House announced that plans were underway for a fall summit in Washington.

The bulletin landed midway through a remarkably candid interview of Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats at the Aspen Security Forum that underscored the disconnect and tension on Russia policy between Trump and his administration. The intelligence chief criticized Trump’s performance during the Helsinki summit and — taking a deep breath and then offering a prolonged grimace-laugh — made clear that he had no advance knowledge of the follow-up meeting with Putin.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-putin-fallout-inside-the-white-houses-tumultuous-week-of-walk-backs/2018/07/20/7cfdfc34-8c3d-11e8-8b20-60521f27434e_story.html

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[Iliyah]

1. It's tumultuous every effing day at the WH.

Stressful indeed. I'm pretty sure these people are just plain frighten of shithole, Bolton, Miller, and others. They are mean and pure evil.

[duforsure]

2. when your a russian asset for putin

trump made it so obvious and even slipped up and told us who his loyalty is for, putin over the USA. Clearly an asset working for putin, and I wonder is his trade war from putin too, because they're making billions from it, hurting us and China , and is it meant to hurt our economy by putin? Is putin now trying to cause a depression here using trump to do for him to get revenge from Obama and Hillary for hurting him from being so strong against him? trump IS working for the interests of putin , and has been all along .