Helsinki Summit
The Helsinki Summit occured on July 16, 2018.
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Leonhard Foeger / Reuters The Worst Security Risk in U.S. History
No one knows what President Trump told Vladimir Putin in Helsinki—or why even his own national-security adviser was excluded from the room.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Trump Has Trapped Himself Into Cracking Down on Russia
In his zeal to get warmer relations, the president made it politically impossible to get them.
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Leonhard Foeger / Reuters Russian Speakers Explain What Putin Actually Said About Trump
In Helsinki, the Russian president didn’t confess to meddling. But he left no doubt about who he wanted to win the U.S. election.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Some of the People Trump Has Blamed for Russia’s 2016 Election Hack
A “400 pound” person, someone living in New Jersey, and now “a lot of people out there”
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Lehtikuva Lehtikuva / Reuters What It Was Like to Attend That Trump-Putin Press Conference
Helsinki set the global stage for diplomatic theater, but Putin ran the show.
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Siphiwe Sibeko / Reuters Barack Obama Breaks His Silence
The former president finally did what his supporters have waited for him to do since Donald Trump became president. He spoke up.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters There’s No Defending Trump Anymore
The spectacle in Helsinki is over. Now it’s time for Congress—and the American people—to act.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Anti-Trump Hysteria Isn’t Helping
The president’s performance in Helsinki wasn’t defensible—but neither was it treasonous.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump’s Weak Defense of His Meeting With Putin
The notion that America can simply move beyond Russia’s electoral interference is fantasy.
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Mikhail Klimentyev / Sputnik / Kremlin via Reuters The French President Had a More American Response to Putin Than Trump Did
In his own news conference with Vladimir Putin, Emmanuel Macron displayed strength and diplomatic agility. President Trump? Not so much.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The End of All Illusions
Trump said nothing new in Helsinki—but his remarks clarified and distilled into a single frame his appalling disregard for an assault on America.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Even on Fox, Trump’s Helsinki Performance Was ‘Ridiculous’ and ‘Surreal’
The president found no safe harbor on his favorite network after his controversial press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump’s Meeting With Putin Draws Alarmed Responses From Both Parties
The president’s remarks casting doubt on Russian interference in the 2016 election drew rebukes both implicit and explicit from those close to, and within, his own administration.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump Blames Bad Relations With Russia on Everything but Russia
In Helsinki, the president preferred to pin the problem on “many years of U.S. foolishness and stupidity.”
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Lehtikuva Lehtikuva / Reuters The Crisis Facing America
The country can no longer afford to wait to ascertain why President Trump has subordinated himself to Putin—it must deal with the fact that he has.
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Leonhard Foeger / Reuters This Is the Moment of Truth for Republicans
The GOP can either defend the United States or serve the damaged and defective man who is now its president.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump Sides With the Kremlin, Against the U.S. Government
The president of the United States took Vladimir Putin’s word over findings by several American agencies that Russia interfered with the 2016 election.
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Antonio Bronic / Reuters Ukraine Is Ground Zero for the Crisis Between Russia and the West
As Trump and Putin meet in Helsinki, the confrontation reflects a larger—and for now probably unbridgeable—divide.
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Reuters / Lehtikuva Trump Meets Putin While America Confronts Russia
The U.S. president may be seeking better terms with his counterpart. But the relationship between their countries just seems to keep getting worse.
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Leonhard Foeger / Reuters They Don’t Make Helsinki Summits Like They Used To
The Finns are once again preparing to host Russian and American leaders—but the context is very different this time.
