Trump’s Shameful “Summit” Was Even Worse Than We Thought

**Sunday at noon:** Bill Kristol will be joined by Eric Edelman, host of the

Trump’s Shameful “Summit” Was Even Worse Than We ThoughtWatch now (13 mins) | Tim Miller takes on how the Trump-Putin Alaska summit went from what seemed to be an empty nothing-burger to a grotesque betrayal as it’s now being reported Trump pushed Putin’s demands onto Zelenskyy that Ukraine give up Donetsk and Luhansk.
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Sunday at noon: Bill Kristol will be joined by Eric Edelman, host of the Shield of the Republic podcast and former Under Sec of Defense for Policy, to discuss the shameful Trump-Putin Summit in Alaska. 
Tune in live at 12pm EDT for The Bulwark on Sunday on Substack. We’ll send out an alert as the show gets started. And post the replay on the site after it concludes.

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Trump’s Shameful “Summit” Was Even Worse Than We Thought
Tim Miller
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Tim Miller takes on how the Trump-Putin Alaska summit went from what seemed to be an empty nothing-burger to a grotesque betrayal as it’s now being reported Trump pushed Putin’s demands onto Zelenskyy that Ukraine give up Donetsk and Luhansk.
Financial Times’ report, “Putin demanded Ukraine cede Donetsk and Luhansk in exchange for freezing rest of front line“
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