President Donald Trump “humiliated” himself on the world stage by letting Vladimir Putin “play” him at the flop Alaska summit, according to Rep. Eric Swalwell.
The California Democrat, a longtime critic of Trump who served as House manager in the president’s second impeachment trial, blasted Trump for literally rolling out the red carpet for Putin on U.S. soil, then walking away without any deal to end Russia’s three-year invasion of Ukraine.
“Putin completely played Trump. This is entirely about Donald Trump refusing to release the Epstein files and in putting forward this scripted counter programming to that,” Swalwell told CNN’s Newsroom. “He made America weaker as perceived by the rest of the world, and he humiliated himself.”
“I want peace in the region, and the best way to achieve