Today’s notice: Trump’s plans for Ukraine change again … or maybe not. Who’s following Lindsey Halligan around the office. The Democratic establishment is facing a potent primary field. And: What opposition groups have learned from hundreds of lawsuits against Trump.
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Second, Third or Fourth Chances? Donald Trump seemed primed to let Vladimir Putin back in his good graces, after a two-hour phone call yesterday that left him certain that the pair would meet again in Budapest within two weeks.
“This may be such a productive call that we’re going to end up…,” the president said in the Oval Office, before hedging, “We want to get peace. We want to stop the killing.”
That’s a far cry from the last few weeks. Trump has routinely declared his disappointment with Putin over the lack of progress toward ending the war in Ukraine. The Alaska summit in August yielded no tangible results, with the promises of a meeting between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy never materializing.