President Trump congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin on winning the Russian election, despite national security advisers writing “DO NOT CONGRATULATE” in all caps on the briefing materials, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. Trump not only ignored these instructions, the paper reports, but also ignored advice to bring up the nerve agent poisoning of a former Russian spy in Salisbury, England, which he himself has said Russia was behind. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters that the U.S. “doesn’t get to dictate how other countries operate. What we do know is that Putin has …read more
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