The Trump-Putin Summit Shows the Dangers of Executive Power
The president is likelier to damage American interests today because yesterday’s establishment undermined the power of Congress.
by Conor Friedersdorf
Jul 16, 2018
3 minutes
On Monday, President Donald Trump begins a summit with Vladimir Putin, the brutal authoritarian who leads Russia, a country where political dissidents are murdered; journalists, minorities, and homosexuals are persecuted; neighbors live under the threat of military takeover; and multiple hackers with close ties to the Kremlin are under FBI indictment for interfering in America’s 2016 election.
It is necessary to meet with such men. Yet to love truth or liberty or democracy or justice or human rights or mere decency is to disapprove of Putin. And Trump has lavished praise on his
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