Trump Congratulates Putin On Election, Fails to Ask a Single Tough Question About…Anything
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Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin hopped on a phone call Tuesday, and Trump used the opportunity to congratulate Putin on his re-election (he won in a rout after barring his main opponent, and there were still a ton of “irregularities”). Did he use the chance to grill the Russian president about his country messing with our election, or the allegations that they poisoned a former Russian spy and his daughter in the UK? Nope! The Times has the details:
Instead, in his phone call with Mr. Putin, the president focused on what the White House called “shared interests,” including North Korea, Ukraine and the escalating arms race between the United States and Russia. He said he and Mr. Putin were likely to meet soon to discuss those issues.
But it was the justification for not asking any of the hard-edged questions that took the cake: