Trump confounds allies, facts with stance on Russia
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is almost certainly correct that better relations between the United States and Russia would be a good thing, but his belief that Russia should be immediately reinstated into the club of the world's major industrial democracies has confounded U.S. allies.
And, his repeated blaming of his predecessor for Russia's annexation of Crimea and its support for separatists in Ukraine is at odds with the facts.
Trump's comments about Russia on Friday are likely to further alienate him and the country he leads from some of America's closest allies in the Group of Seven, further fracturing the bloc, which has already been strained by his threats to impose massive tariffs on imports.