March 2, 2017
BOXING DONALD:
Trump Taps Putin Critic for Senior White House Position : The selection of Brookings scholar Fiona Hill comes as the Trump administration draws fire for contacts with Russian officials. (JOHN HUDSON, MARCH 2, 2017, Foreign Policy)
The Trump administration has offered a well-respected scholar and sober critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin the position of White House senior director for Europe and Russia, a White House official told Foreign Policy. [...]Since President Donald Trump's election in November, she has dismissed the possibility of a dramatic rapprochement with Russia given the inherent differences between Washington and Moscow. "The Russians will get all giddy with expectations, and then they'll be dashed, like, five minutes into the relationship because the U.S. and Russia just have a very hard time ... being on the same page," she told The Atlantic in November.
Posted by Orrin Judd at March 2, 2017 9:29 AM