The following article by Aaron Blake was posted on the Washington Post website March 21, 2018:
President Trump also said that he will discuss what he described as an “arms race” with President Putin. (The Washington Post)
President Trump announced two weeks ago that he would hold an unprecedented summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. On Tuesday, Trump reminded us just how awry that meeting could go.
The Washington Post is reporting that Trump was given key talking points for his call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday and that he disregarded just about all of them. He was not supposed to congratulate Putin on his allegedly unfair and undemocratic reelection win — his notes even had “DO NOT CONGRATULATE” in all caps — and yet he did. And he was supposed to condemn Russia’s alleged role in the nerve-agent attack on a former Russian spy in Britain, and yet he did not. Continue reading “What ‘DO NOT CONGRATULATE’ says about Trump — and the peril of meeting Kim Jong Un”