Trump-Putin the sequel would be worse than the original

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President Trump apparently directed national security adviser John Bolton to invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to Washington this fall. Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted that “discussions are already underway.”

This is a terrible idea. Didn’t the first Trump-Putin meeting go poorly enough that the president wouldn’t be eager for a repeat performance?

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