Trump Tells Aides Not to Talk About Russia

President Trump’s national security advisers “spent months trying to convince him to sign off on a plan to supply new U.S. weapons to Ukraine to aid in the country’s fight against Russian-backed separatists,” NBC News reports.

“Yet when the president finally authorized the major policy shift, he told his aides not to publicly tout his decision, officials said. Doing so, Trump argued, might agitate Russian President Vladimir Putin.”

Said one White House official: “He doesn’t want us to bring it up. It is not something he wants to talk about.”