“Laws are like sausages. It’s better not to see them being made.”

That famous – and accurate – quip is a perfect way to describe the dirty political deals that are made in secret to produce so many important pieces of legislation.

But the sausage-making metaphor also applies to high stakes summit meetings with world leader, like the ones President Trump has hosted lately in Alaska and D.C.

The whole world watched Trump’s face-to-face meet-up with Vladimir Putin in Alaska, which was the start of negotiations we hope will bring an end to the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine.

It was just as well that we didn’t hear what the world’s most famous leaders said or promised to each other behind closed doors.

Trump tweeted afterwards that it had been “a great and very successful day” and

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