CFR fellow, WaPo columnist. Pulitzer finalist for biography. REAGAN: HIS LIFE AND LEGEND: NYT bestseller & NYT 10 best books of 2024. Writing John McCain bio.
This is why I resist saying that Trump has switched sides in the war or that there is some conspiratorial link between Putin and him. He is easily duped by Putin, but he is also so mercurial that he can seem to support Russia one day and Ukraine the next. As I noted in
NEW: Trump called Musk and asked him to lift restrictions on a military-grade version of Starlink in Ukraine that the SpaceX chief had throttled, U.S. officials said.
The system was working more normally Thursday, shortly after their conversation, per Us and Ukrainian officials
Robert Rubin: Many Americans continue to underestimate one particular potential threat to our economic future: President Trump’s clearly expressed desire to interfere with and even usurp the midterm elections. Nov. 3 could be a defining test for the rule of law in this country,
Steve Witkoff to Vladimir Putin, the man who unleashed the biggest war in Europe since 1945:
“You talk so much about my president, President Trump, being the humanitarian. You are, you are humanitarian also, sir, and I salute that. I commend you”.