TIME Magazine Asia July 30, 2018 Zurück Ausgabe

THE SUMMIT CRISIS
President Trump wanted a summit with Vladimir Putin, he got more than he bargained for. It was a simple question, asked of President Trump by a seasoned reporter, but it sent a jolt through the assembled media at the July 16 press conference held at an ornate palace in Helsinki. Vladimir Putin had just denied again that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. America’s Justice Department, intelligence community and both chambers
of Congress have concluded, definitively, that the Kremlin had done it. Who
did Trump trust more? This was the moment for the President to deliver a forceful rebuke to America’s long-standing adversary. Instead, Trump replied: “I have confidence in both parties,” he said. The lights in the White House Cabinet Room briefly went dark on July 17 as Trump addressed criticism of his failure to confront Putin in Helsinki.