NEW: Putin and Hungary’s Orban helped turn Trump against Ukraine, to dismay of WH officials who hoped Trump would help Zelensky rather than try to exploit him. https://t.co/rvsG6Ys19q
Wait what?! “The May visit from Orban began with an hour-long meeting between Trump and the Hungarian leader with no note-takers, officials said.“ https://t.co/rDwH5xyd8N
“Over time you just see a wearing down of the defenses, a former White House official said, describing the struggle to contest the influence of Giuliani, Putin and Orban.” https://t.co/0n9pA8ereS
Good reporting but I don’t buy the narrative of naive, impressionable Donald Trump being hoodwinked by Putin and Orban to see Ukraine in a negative light. Trump listens to these authoritarians (and not Merkel or Macron) for a reason. And it’s not naïveté. https://t.co/gy5Bqr1KtP
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by artappraiser on Tue, 10/22/2019 - 1:20am