If Americans think Trump was unpatriotic with Putin, it could hurt his presidency
So the President of the United States prefers the word of Vladimir Putin to the collective weight of the best resourced intelligence agencies on the planet. His people. The ones sworn to defend the United States.
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It is one thing to accuse the President of gullibility, stupidity or political opportunism, but questioning his fundamental loyalty to the United States is on another level.
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If a view he has been unpatriotic was to take hold, then it could well be the beginning of the end for Donald Trump. Of course he would describe any such interpretation as "fake news".
He will defend his relationship with Vladimir Putin as good for everyone. Yes, the world. And if it means real progress towards cutting nuclear weapons stockpiles and deterring nuclear proliferation then he could fairly claim talking to "competitors" like Russia is a definite plus.
Putin's pragmatic view
Mr Putin takes a more pragmatic view of this newly energised relationship.
"Where do you get this idea that President Trump trusts me or I trust him?," he asks.
"He defends the interests of the United States of America and I do defend the interests of the Russian Federation."
Not friends, not enemies, but the US President represents a powerful nation that must be managed, massaged, influenced in a way that works for Russia.
And given the effusive praise coming from Donald Trump for his Russian counterpart it would appear that process is working swimmingly for the KGB agent-turned-President.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-17/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-unpatriotic/10001972
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