Balance of Power: Why Team Trump Might Not Want a Putin Sitdown
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From the White House’s perspective, now might be not be the best time for pictures of Donald Trump sitting down with Vladimir Putin.
It abruptly scrapped a planned formal session between them at an Asia-Pacific summit in Vietnam. The meeting would have played out against the backdrop of Trump’s former campaign chairman being indicted, and special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of Russian election meddling moving ever closer to the U.S. president’s inner circle.