“President Trump sucking up to Vladamir Putin after the summit in Helsinki yesterday was such an unbelievable, indelible moment that many deflated White House officials didn’t even bother to defend or explain it,” is the lead sentence of this morning’s @axios report.
“Anchors and commentators, who already had become loose with their language, became untethered from journalistic norms, just as Trump had abandoned presidential norms. On CNN, Anderson Cooper called the performance ‘disgraceful’ and Chris Cuomo called it ‘a betrayal,” it notes.
And here’s the imagery @axios (closely read by the inside-the-Beltway set) has accompanying its morning report about the fallout from the #TrumpPutinSummit. 
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