Contrary to what you may have heard on television or read in news accounts, President Donald Trump achieved virtually all of his primary objectives during Friday’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. But that is what happens when you have reporters covering a reality television show as if it were actual international statecraft.

Trump’s primary short-term goal for hosting the meeting was to distract from the demands of his base and the vast majority of the American people for more information about the president’s involvement with convicted sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. A related secondary goal was to shift focus from a U.S. economy that is circling the drain as a consequence of Trump’s reckless trade policies and fiscal irresponsibility.

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