President Trump did not follow specific warnings from his national security advisers Tuesday when he congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin on his reelection — including a section in his briefing materials in all-capital letters stating “DO NOT CONGRATULATE,” according to officials familiar with the call.
Trump also chose not to heed talking points from aides instructing him to condemn the recent poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain with a powerful nerve agent, a case that both the British and U.S. governments have blamed on Moscow.
The president’s conversation with Putin, which Trump described as a “very good call,” prompted fresh criticism of his muted tone toward one of the United States’ biggest geopolitical rivals amid the special counsel investigation into Russia’s election interference and the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russian officials.
This just in: Tell the President of the United Fucking States to do something, "Just because" he's going to fucking do it, because I guarantee whoever wrote that is a fucking bitch.
Key difference between Obama's call and Trump is that Putin hadn't done anything really publicly yet and they were trying to reset relations. Invasion of Crimea happened in 2014, which then Obama obviously wasn't continuing to reset relations but instead took a harder stance. Trump is congratulating a leader after they've just accused them of staging a chemical weapons attack on our closest ally. You literally could not find a weaker president unless you found one who blamed an unknown foreign attack on his own government.
Dylan Sanders
Russians have been accused incessantly of everything for the past several years by the MSM and leftist+neocon schmucks. Trump doesn't cave in to them, he regularly flips them the bird.
Matthew Hernandez
What are you talking about, Chaim? Israel hasn't been attacked by Russia….yet
