Updated at 7:13 p.m. ET
President Trump’s effort to reset relations with Russia backfired at home after he failed to side with the U.S. intelligence community over Moscow’s interference in the 2016 election. The president’s equivocation drew bipartisan condemnation, capping a week in which Trump alienated allies and cozied up to adversaries.
Trump himself declared his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday in Helsinki a success, in what he called the “proud tradition of bold American diplomacy.”
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