It has been a full week since Donald Trump met Vladimir Putin in Hamburg at this year’s G20 meeting—and what a week it’s been. The revelations regarding a meeting the President’s son had with a shady Russian lawyer this past year have cast a pall over his Administration. At the very minimum, the campaign betrayed a profoundly reckless and callow attitude toward the prospect of actively cooperating with a country that wishes us ill. While Trump Administration surrogates are furiously arguing that there was nothing strictly illegal about the meeting, and even trying out various “what about” counter-narratives, it’s clear …read more
Source: The American Interest