It was a brutal account that wouldn’t have been out of place on MSNBC or CNN, but it made quite the splash when delivered on Fox News on the evening of Aug. 15.

“The way that it felt in the room was not good,” Fox News senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich told viewers , reporting from the scene shortly after President Donald Trump held a joint news conference in Alaska with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss Ukraine that seemed to achieve little.

“It did not seem like things went well, and it seemed like Putin came in and steamrolled, got right into what he wanted to say, and got his photo next to the president and then left.”

Social media lit up. Two days later, on his HBO show, host John Oliver said that Trump “held a press conference that went so badly even thi

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