The following article by Brett Samuels was posted on the Hill website July 19, 2018:
President Trump on Thursday said he wants to have a second meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, even as he endures days of stark, bipartisan criticism over his performance at his first summit with the Russian leader Monday in Helsinki.
Trump, who at the summit appeared to put equal weight in Putin’s denial of involvement in the 2016 election with the findings of his intelligence agencies that Russia did interfere in the election, pronounced the summit a huge success and said he was looking forward to meeting Putin again.
“The Summit with Russia was a great success, except with the real enemy of the people, the Fake News Media,” Trump tweeted.