Why did Donald Trump ‘side with Russia’ on election meddling?

Plenty of USA presidents have created commotion in their travels overseas, none so much as President Donald Trump. Unlike his rhetoric, Trump’s Russian Federation policy has actually been a dramatic improvement over that of his predecessor.

Donald Trump has distanced himself from his comments that saw him siding with Russian Federation over his own intelligence agencies after a furious backlash.

What President Trump did was, in my opinion, absolutely genius.

The president’s tumultuous trip across Europe, historians say, smashed the conventions of American leaders on the world stage.

But while Trump expressed his ‘full faith and support for America’s great intelligence agencies, ‘ he insisted that ‘Russia’s actions had no impact at all on the outcome of the election’.

Trump’s comments come after he demanded last week that North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies “reimburse” the USA for defence costs.

Earlier Tuesday, House Republicans have used a party-line vote to block a Democratic measure aimed at condemning President Donald Trump’s stunning comments in Helsinki, Finland, about Russian Federation.

He had made the original comments standing alongside Vladimir Putin on a stage in Helsinki.

For days before his meeting in Helsinki, Trump’s aides had cautioned him to be careful in his exchanges with Putin.

“I don’t even want to use the word ‘adversary, ‘” he said.

After his summit with Putin, Trump told reporters at a joint news conference that the Russian leader was “extremely strong” in his denial of election interference. He criticized members of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, the decades-old military alliance, for failing to spend enough on defense and suggested he might not be interested in “paying for Europe’s protection” any longer. Harris asked. “We should concentrate on the summit”.

THE FACTS: No, increased military spending by North Atlantic Treaty Organisation members is not “only because” of him.

The upcoming hearing is also the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s first on Russian Federation this year, despite what Democratic congressional aides describe as a behind-the-scenes push by lawmakers on the left to get an open hearing on Russian Federation for months. Speaking on the eve of his meeting with Prime Minister Theresa May, he condemned how she had handled the process of separating Britain from the European Union.

That tweet came before the “CBS Evening News” broadcast an interview with Trump in which he cast doubt on Coats’ recent warning that the nation is susceptible to a large-scale cybersecurity attack. The Wisconsin Republican said “there is no question” Russian Federation interfered in the elections and said there is “no moral equivalence” between the two countries.

My second question is, would you now, with the whole world watching, tell President Putin, would you denounce what happened in 2016 and would you warn him to never do it again? During his latest visit to Brussels earlier this month just before his meeting with Putin, Trump emphasized the improvement of U.S. -Russia relations, and stopped short of hitting Moscow hard on its behavior including the forcible annexation of Crimea in southern Ukraine. “Sort of a double negative”, he said.

Many Republicans are laying the groundwork to ignore the conclusions of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s inquiry, which President Trump calls a “witch hunt”.

“They’re not saying don’t do this or this is the wrong thing to do”, Flake said. Trump expelled 60 Russian diplomats, approved a $47 million arms sale to Ukraine, continued the deployment of NATO forces to the Baltic states, posted troops to Poland’s border with Russia and levied new sanctions against Moscow for violating the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. “I think he is a bad person”. “I have confidence in both parties”.