is finding out that dealing with can be an exercise in thinking you have a deal, only to find the Russian president has added some fine print to the agreement. It turns out Trump is having a little trouble getting delivery on the two main “deliverables” from last week’s Alaska summit — a Putin-Zelensky sitdown and an acceptance of security guarantees to prevent Russia from resuming its invasion in the future.

In a Tuesday morning interview on Fox & Friends, Trump was hedging about whether the promised meeting would happen. “I sort of set it up with Putin and Zelensky,” he said. “You know, they’re the ones that have to call the shots. We’re 7,000 miles away in all fairness.”

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