NPR - How The Trump Campaign Weakened The Republican Platform On Aid To Ukraine

[TomCADem]

Republicans will try to minimize any connections between the Trump campaign and Russia, but it is helpful to remember that the one big change in the RNC platform that Trump insisted on in August was weakening of language regarding aide to the Ukraine, which is amazing given that Republicans have long argued that President Obama should take a more interventionist role. Of course, in the weeks that followed, while a steady stream of hacked e-mails from Democrats followed, very little of note was disclosed regarding Republicans.

http://www.npr.org/2016/08/06/488876597/how-the-trump-campaign-weakened-the-republican-platform-on-aid-to-ukraine

One of the questions raised over the course of this year's presidential race is about how a President Trump would deal with Russian president Vladimir Putin.

One reason to wonder: the Republican Party platform's new language on policy towards Ukraine.

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It's more than semantics. Many Republicans have been demanding the Obama administration provide a more robust response to Russia's incursions in Ukraine.

Denman "was steam rolled," said Melinda Haring of the Atlantic Council, a Washington, DC, think tank, who believes the language the Trump campaign approved is weaker. And she says "it's anyone's guess" what Trump would do regarding Ukraine and Russia, and that perhaps he might not even back "appropriate assistance."