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   From: js@phendrie.con   
      
   On 6/17/2021 8:37 AM, Lee wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   > RNC, without 'a hint of irony,' slams   
   > Biden for meeting with Putin   
   > JUNE 16, 2021   
   >   
   >   
   > The Republican National Committee is   
   > going after President Biden for his   
   > Wednesday meeting with Russian President   
   > Vladimir Putin in Geneva, accusing him   
   > of handing Russia a "win."   
   >   
   > RNC Communications Director Danielle   
   > Alvarez in a statement Wednesday argued   
   > that "giving Putin a meeting is just the   
   > latest win that Joe Biden has handed   
   > Russia," attacking the president for   
   > "foreign policy failures" that have   
   > "strengthened Russia at the expense of   
   > our country."   
   >   
   > Other Republicans had previously slammed   
   > Biden leading up to the summit for being   
   > soft on Russia, though The New York Times   
   > wrote that such critics tended to   
   > "neglect to mention their backing of"   
   > former President Donald Trump, who "spent   
   > four years seeking to befriend" Putin   
   > while "dismissing Russia's aggressive   
   > behavior." During his Helsinki summit with   
   > Putin in 2018, Trump famously said he didn't   
   > "see any reason why" Russia would have   
   > interfered in the 2016 presidential election,   
   > defying U.S. intelligence officials.   
      
   Trump sat there with Putin in public with a look that said Putin owned him and   
   had reminded him of that in the corrupt meeting at which no U.S. advisors or   
   translator was present.  Putin told him in that meeting that Trump better not   
   give him any trouble or else.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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