Arizona Republic editorial board: Congress needs to rein in Trump
BY ARIS FOLLEY - 07/17/18 10:57 AM EDT
The Arizona Republic editorial board said in a scathing editorial on Tuesday that President Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin proves Trump “has no clue what it means to be president of the United States.”
“When will Congress rein him in?” the editorial board said in the editorial published a day after Trump appeared to side with Putin over his denial of interfering in the 2016 election. Trump and Putin held a joint press conference in Helsinki, Finland, on Monday.
“The president's yes-man behavior with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin shows that Donald Trump does not understand the importance of the job he holds,” the editorial board wrote. “He hasn’t got a clue about what it means to be president.”
“The world looks to the United States for leadership, for support of democratic institutions, for respect of human rights and dignity. We have long stood for those values,” the fiery editorial continued. “But the world just saw the American president give a green light to a dictator’s aggression. Every tyrant on the planet has reason to rejoice.”
Trump drew swift backlash on Monday after he refuted his own intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 election during the press conference, saying that he doesn’t “see any reason” why Russia would have been behind the hacking.
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