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From: Bill Wolf	8/24/2024 10:08:49 AM
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'I Cannot Understand Putin’s Hold on Trump’ In an exclusive excerpt from his new memoir, H.R. McMaster details the clashes over Russia that led President Trump to fire him as national security adviser. By H.R. McMaster Aug. 23, 2024 11:00 am ET H.R. McMaster is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general who served as U.S. national security adviser in 2017-18. This essay is adapted from his new book, “At War With Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House,” published Aug. 27 by Harper (which like The Wall Street Journal is a division of News Corp). From the beginning of my time as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, in February 2017, I found that discussions of Vladimir Putin and Russia were difficult to have with the president. Trump connected all topics involving Russia to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russia’s attack on the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the allegations (which were found to be false) that the Trump campaign, including the president himself, had “colluded” with Russia’s disinformation campaign to sway the election toward Trump. Since Trump’s election, Democrats and others opposed to Trump kept looking for evidence of collusion or corruption with Russians or for compromising information—such as that in the discredited Steele dossier, a document filled with false allegations about Trump that was funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and presented to the FBI as fact. All this had created opportunities for the Kremlin. Like his predecessors George W. Bush and Barack Obama, Trump was overconfident in his ability to improve relations with the dictator in the Kremlin. Trump, the self-described “expert dealmaker,” believed he could build a personal rapport with Putin. Trump’s tendency to be reflexively contrarian only added to his determination. The fact that most foreign policy experts in Washington advocated a tough approach to the Kremlin seemed only to drive the president to the opposite approach. President Donald Trump talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin at an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Vietnam, November 2017. Photo: mikhail klimentyev/sputnik/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images wsj.com

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