How Chuck Grassley's Politicized Redactions Gave Putin Leverage over Trump - emptywheel

How Chuck Grassley's Politicized Redactions Gave Putin Leverage over Trump - emptywheel

After making Canada, Japan, Vietnam, and Switzerland go to the US and making the EU go to Trump’s golf course in Scotland to negotiate tariffs, Trump sent his real estate developer buddy, Steve Witkoff, to Moscow to negotiate tariffs with Vladimir Putin. I would have low expectations that Witkoff, who has gotten his ass handed to him at every turn, would negotiate a reasonable deal with Russia in any case. All the more so given the politicized r…