'Thirsty for a Deal': Putin Plays Trump to His Own Great Advantage
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For weeks, President Donald Trump and his aides assured the public that Vladimir Putin had never deceived him.
Analysis by Aaron Blake, CNN For weeks, President Donald Trump and his advisers have claimed that Vladimir Putin never fooled him. When Trump, after years of speaking warmly about the Russian president, finally turned on the longtime US adversary, it had to be because Putin had somehow changed. And now, despite all those attempts to rewrite history, Trump enters his highest-profile meeting with Putin at risk of once again looking like a fool.
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will meet between the four eyes, after the negotiations should come their joint press conference. “The fact that this meeting will take place on American soil is a huge victory for Putin, who has so far been regarded as persona non grata,” said researcher Dalibor Roháč of the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., noting that international arrest warrants have been issued against the Russian president.…
Has Donald Trump been fooled by Vladimir Putin in his diplomatic efforts over the past six months, since he promised to achieve a peace agreement in Ukraine? CNN asks, in an analysis of how the US president's rhetoric regarding his Russian counterpart has changed.
While in the past Donald Trump's words of admiration for Vladimir Putin have been the most common, the rhetoric has taken a turn in recent months.
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