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The White House spent July 28 still trying to contain the fallout from Trump’s Helsinki performance, but the underlying problem was unchanged: the president had publicly undercut U.S. intelligence and then left aides to improvise the after-action damage control. The more the administration tried to clarify, the more obvious it became that Trump had handed Putin a political win and a diplomatic mess at home.
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The White House spent July 28 still trying to contain the fallout from Trump’s Helsinki performance, but the underlying problem was unchanged: the president had publicly undercut U.S. intelligence and then left aides to improvise the after-action damage control. The more the administration tried to clarify, the more obvious it became that Trump had handed Putin a political win and a diplomatic mess at home.
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The White House spent July 28 still trying to contain the fallout from Trump’s Helsinki performance, but the underlying problem was unchanged: the president had publicly undercut U.S. intelligence and then left aides to improvise the after-action damage control. The more the administration tried to clarify, the more obvious it became that Trump had handed Putin a political win and a diplomatic mess at home.
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