The President From Helsinki: Trump Appearance With Putin Sparks Bipartisan Ire

[Dulcinea]

President Trump's effort to reset relations with Russia backfired at home, when he failed to side with U.S. intelligence over Moscow's interference in the 2016 election. The president's equivocation drew bipartisan condemnation, capping a week in which Trump alienated allies and cozied up to adversaries.

Trump himself declared his summit meeting in Helsinki a success, in what he called the "proud tradition of bold American diplomacy."

The president said he pressed Russian President Vladimir Putin about Moscow's interference in the election, but he appeared to take Putin's denial at face value, just days after a grand jury indicted 12 Russian intelligence agents on election-related charges.

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/16/628973563/trump-putin-to-meet-after-new-charges-over-russias-2016-election-interference

[lagomorph777]

1. That's pretty bold for NPR, who I stopped listening to years ago.

They drifted pretty far to the right and I lost interest.

[dalton99a]

2. There was nothing proud or bold in what he did

Goddamn traitor

[murielm99]

3. Ire is not enough. n/t