Update: 6.30am ET
"The Helsinki summit: 5 things Trump must discuss with Putin" https://t.co/Sp1oAA1XQw pic.twitter.com/u24XjCMKr9
— The Hill (@thehill) July 16, 2018
Trump in opening remarks to Finnish President in Helsinki thanks him for his support, and says NATO has never been stronger. Finland isn't in NATO.
— Henry Foy (@HenryJFoy) July 16, 2018
Hard to imagine that anything could go wrong in an hour and a half’s unsupervised chat between an ex-KGB intelligence officer and a guy who couldn’t work out how to walk in a straight line next to the Queen. https://t.co/ZechEemgfw
— Michael Marshall Smith (@ememess) July 16, 2018
America First = Blame America First. https://t.co/vMFNR1MCPD
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) July 16, 2018
Russia's foreign ministry, realising the fact it liked this Trump tweet is now widely known, doubles down pic.twitter.com/fmSDMuCln0
— Matthew Champion (@matthewchampion) July 16, 2018
If you missed this, please take a moment to read–it was not an easy thing to feel compelled to write: The Way Trump and the GOP Deal with Russian Attacks is ‘Textbook Treason’ https://t.co/01EpuxdyTc via @thedailybeast
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) July 15, 2018
Earlier:
Pres. Trump and Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin will meet Monday at Finnish presidential palace in Helsinki that overlooks the Baltic Sea — the same venue where two of their predecessors met in 1990. https://t.co/8Fb6K7m2mq pic.twitter.com/JgEG5bXBAq
— ABC News (@ABC) July 15, 2018
NOW: President Trump arrives in Helsinki to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin https://t.co/gwDuxMagwA pic.twitter.com/sVcOVQxfG5
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 15, 2018
Russian state TV tonight suggests that, for Donald Trump, the meeting with Vladimir Putin is more important than the NATO summit & UK visit: “The show is over. Now the work begins. After all, he was just passing through Brussels & London on the way to Helsinki.” pic.twitter.com/nk4elgstl3
— Steve Rosenberg (@BBCSteveR) July 15, 2018
GOP senator: "Putin is a murderer," Trump shouldn't dignify him with a summit https://t.co/Y3xFQNVDJa pic.twitter.com/kFWGeEn07T
— The Hill (@thehill) July 16, 2018
John Bolton says Mueller's indictment of Russian agents "strengthens" Pres. Trump's hand in confronting Putin.
Sen. Chris Murphy: "I'd like to know the name of the president that John Bolton thinks he works for because he's not describing Pres. Trump" https://t.co/4VO8tZMJnP pic.twitter.com/nXGA3RWsoK
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) July 16, 2018
From London to Helsinki, protests followed President Trump through Europe all weekend https://t.co/cdgq18e8Mk pic.twitter.com/aadZMplXWR
— CNN (@CNN) July 16, 2018
#Helsinki protests against Trump. He’s hated around the world.pic.twitter.com/JlNcrKTga1
— 3ChicsPolitico (@3ChicsPolitico) July 15, 2018
Asked who is America's biggest foe, the President of the United States says: "The European Union is a foe." #facepalm https://t.co/1ABQsyfSLx
— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) July 15, 2018
Just walked by a Russian here in Helsinki with a red #MAGA baseball cap on. What strange times we live in.
— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) July 15, 2018
On the day that @POTUS is on his way to meet with a brutal dictator who murders journalists…he tweets that the media is “the enemy of the people.” Unconscionable. #Trump #Putin #Helsinki pic.twitter.com/5G25isfjo5
— Andy Ostroy (@AndyOstroy) July 16, 2018
Ahead of the Trump-Putin meeting here, Finland’s largest newspaper has put up ads around Helsinki which are less than complimentary about the visiting leaders. The sign in Russian says: “Putin is trying again to bring the media to heel.” pic.twitter.com/Oy89XnP2WJ
— Steve Rosenberg (@BBCSteveR) July 15, 2018
Wonder if this will come up in Helsinki tomorrow. The GRU, same Russian military intelligence service accused of disrupting the 2016 presidential election, may also be responsible for the nerve agent attack in Britain against a former Russian spy https://t.co/Hrr88YP95d
— Julie Davis (@juliehdavis) July 15, 2018
Ahead of Helsinki summit, Rep. Gowdy wants President Trump to ask Putin where "we can pick up the 25 Russians" indicted in Mueller probe https://t.co/vRMDUQevsh pic.twitter.com/uxvoKQ71vH
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 15, 2018
One of my serious policy concerns about the Helsinki performance review is that these two kleptos are going to agree to turning the entire Arctic into a gas station.
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) July 15, 2018
Just watch: Trump will emerge from the Helsinki summit with some token concession from Putin and will take public credit for the illusory “win” while Putin secretly solidifies his US puppet’s value as an anti-EU, anti-NATO, pro-Assad, pro-Erdogan asset. All par for the course.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) July 15, 2018
