Lawfare Archive: Julia Ioffe and Ian Bremmer on the Trump-Putin Summit
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🗓️ 19 June 2021
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From the Lawfare Archive, July 17, 2018: U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Helsinki for their first one-on-one summit, where the U.S. president said that he trusted the Russian president's denial of election interference over his own intelligence community. In the United States, furor followed on both sides of the aisle. To break down what happened and what it means, Alina Polyakova sat down with Julia Ioffe, correspondent at GQ and long-time Russia observer, and Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group, to talk about why nobody else was in the room with Trump and Putin during their over-two-hour, one-on-one meeting; what Russia's kompromat on Trump really might be; and whether this summit actually moved the needle in U.S.-Russia policy. What was gained and what was lost? Was this a win for Putin? An embarrassment for Trump?
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| 1:23.7 | June 19th, 2021. |
| 1:26.6 | Earlier this week, President Biden met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva |
| 1:30.7 | for what may be the most important bilateral summit of his presidency. |
| 1:35.0 | For today's episode from the archives, I went back to July 2018 for a discussion of President |
| 1:39.8 | Donald Trump's own first summit with Putin and Helsinki. |
| 1:43.1 | LawFair listeners can compare the two presidents engagements with Putin and better understand |
| 1:47.4 | how Biden's approach to Russia differs from that of his predecessor. |
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