Republicans rattled by Trump

The president’s party puts up with a lot – but cosying up to Putin was too much.

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"After 17 months, three weeks and six days of Donald Trump's tumultuous presidency, some of his fellow Republicans had finally had enough," says Peter Baker in The New York Times. The extraordinary press conference in Helsinki with Vladimir Putin, in which Trump stated that he didn't "see any reason" why Russia should be behind US election interference, suggested that the US president had chosen to take the word of Russia's strongman over that of his own intelligence agencies. The remarks drew unprecedented criticism from the political right, with former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich saying that it was "the most serious mistake of his presidency".

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