After months of extending his hand to Vladimir Putin, is Donald Trump going to get tough on Russia?That’s what the president-elect on Wednesday suggested he might just do, given what he called the “good chance” that he might not get along with the Russian president after all. The claim contradicted Trump’s personal flattery of Putin and his repeated pledges to “get along great” with Putin’s Russia, and thus fell on decidedly skeptical ears in Washington. But amid explosive evidence of Russian influence in the November election and unsubstantiated charges that Trump himself may have been compromised by the Kremlin, Trump’s …read more
Source: POLITICO – U.S. Edition