Taking Putin's word
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-1114-putin-trump-20171113-story.html
It’s not every day that a sitting U.S. president takes the word of a former KGB colonel over the assessment of U.S. intelligence services — unless, of course, you’re talking about Donald J. Trump. The 45th president was back in full deferential mode this weekend toward Russian President Vladimir Putin, meeting with him Saturday in Vietnam and then telling reporters that he believed Mr. Putin was sincere when he said he didn’t meddle in the presidential election.
Yikes. Naturally, President Trump tried to walk back that observation — sort of. “What I said is that I believe [Mr. Putin] believes that,” he told reporters Sunday in Hanoi. Got that? Mr. Trump thinks Mr. Putin believed what he said. As for U.S. intelligence services, which have stuck to their assessment that Russia did meddle with the last election and that Mr. Putin directed that action, Mr. Trump said he is “with” intelligence agencies “especially as currently constituted with their leadership.”...
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