Trump hails G-20 'success.' Others see political chaos and American decline.
By Ishaan Tharoor July 10 at 1:00 AM
President Trump predictably hailed his trip to the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg as a “wonderful success.” In that assessment, he's more or less alone.
The fallout of Trump's first face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin was still being measured on Sunday. The one tangible outcome of the meeting was a limited cease-fire in southern Syria (more on that later in the newsletter), which swung into effect on Sunday. Otherwise, there was little to show from the confab.
Then, Trump sent heads spinning with his now-customary Sunday tweetstorm.
Sitting once more at one of his golf courses, Trump vowed to “move forward constructively” with Moscow, while also aiming more jabs at the Obama administration and appearing to minimize the significance of alleged Russian interference in last year's election. He seemed to take at face value Putin's denial of Russian involvement in anti-U.S. cyberwarfare, then indicated he would be willing to set up a joint cybersecurity unit with the Russians.
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