<em>The Atlantic </em>Daily: How to Understand Trump’s Latest Russia Comments
Interpreting statements from Putin and Trump. Plus Brett Kavanaugh’s past, the problem with happy endings, and more.
by Rosa Inocencio Smith
Jul 18, 2018
3 minutes
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Parsing Trump: Just a day after he walked back comments about Russian interference in the 2016 election, President Trump appeared once again to reject the intelligence community’s conclusion that such information warfare is ongoing. While the White House denied that interpretation, the president’s rhetoric on Russia remains distant from the policies advanced by Congress and the State Department. And if Trump’s goal is, as he’s stated, to warm the U.S. relationship with Russia, the deference to Vladimir Putin he’s shown this week may do just
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