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Trump Blames Bad Relations With Russia on Everything but Russia

In Helsinki, the president preferred to pin the problem on “many years of U.S. foolishness and stupidity.”
Source: Kevin Lamarque / Reuters

During his with Vladimir Putin in Finland on Monday, Donald Trump was given a chance to walk back his from earlier in the day blaming poor U.S.–Russia relations on past American presidents and Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian meddling in U.S. politics. The real culprit, according to Trump, was not Russia’s interference in the 2016 to the American president.)

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