Donald Trump was clearly played for a chump by former KGB operative Vladimir Putin during the failed summit in Alaska

Associated Press by Michelle L. Price: Trump leaves Alaska summit with Putin empty-handed after failing to reach a deal to end Ukraine war:  "Trump, who for years has balked at American support for Ukraine and expressed admiration for Putin, had pledged confidently to bring about an end to the war on his first day back in the White House. Seven months later, after berating President Zelenskyy in the Oval Office and stanching the flow of some U.S. military assistance to Kyiv, Trump could not bring Putin even to pause the fighting, as his forces make gains on the battlefield".

Echo opinion to the editor of the Los Angeles Times: Watching Donaldl Trump roll out the red carpet to a Russian dictator currently facing an arrest warrant over war crimes against a free country was astonishing. The fact that Trump consistently spews hatred for the “radical left” in California (the biggest tax contributor of all the states) shows how twisted the Republican “own the libs” philosophy has become. 

No wonder Vladimir Putin was so joyful as he rode away in the presidential limousine: Trump legitimized him on the world stage, and he didn’t have to concede a thing.

From Ken Jacobs, in Santa Monica California