Why Trump’s summit performance rocked Capitol Hill
On Day Two, post-Helsinki summit, President Trump sought to ease the shock and awe over his jaw-dropping disavowal of his own intelligence services, saying he misspoke: He does believe their assessment that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, Mr. Trump stated Tuesday at a meeting with members of Congress.
But the aftershocks of his performance in Helsinki will surely be felt for some time to come.
Never before, in living memory, had an American president stood on foreign soil and sided with a rival foreign leader and against pillars of American government – in
Support for Russia among Republicans nearly doublesDemocrats unmollified