For some military vets, deep concern over Trump’s summit with Putin
Jul 19, 2018
4 minutes
Kristofer Goldsmith served in the military during the presidency of George W. Bush, and while he came to regard the Iraq War as unnecessary, he respected then-President Bush’s loyalty to the armed forces and the intelligence community.
“I never once felt that he didn’t have the best interests of the United States at the forefront of his mind,” says Mr. Goldsmith.
But the Iraq war veteran says it was totally different watching President Trump stand side by side with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki this week and cast doubt on unanimous US intelligence assessments that Russia systematically sought to manipulate the
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