
Don't ever forget what happened at the Donald Trump-Vladimir Putin summit
CNN
With Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin huddling Wednesday in Geneva it's worth remembering a similar summit between Putin and Donald Trump in 2018 -- one of the lowest points of a presidency absolutely stuffed with them.
The two presidents met in Helsinki on July 16, 2018 -- a meeting that came amid special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The central issue was whether Trump would confront Putin about Russia's involvement in a US presidential election. That, um, didn't happen. In a joint news conference after their meeting, Trump not only refused to condemn Russian interference but seemed to side with Putin and against his own intelligence community.
The alleged drug traffickers killed by the US military in a strike on September 2 were heading to link up with another, larger vessel that was bound for Suriname — a small South American country east of Venezuela – the admiral who oversaw the operation told lawmakers on Thursday according to two sources with direct knowledge of his remarks.

The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel in early September did not appear to have radio or other communications devices, the top military official overseeing the strike told lawmakers on Thursday, according to two sources with direct knowledge of his congressional briefings.











