El Trumpo goes cap in hand to Putin

Tuesday, 31 March 2020

Via The Hill:

President Trump on Monday said he would speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin following a morning call into “Fox & Friends,” offering a lengthy defense of his effort to forge a relationship with Russia.

“Right after this call I’m speaking to a gentleman named Vladimir Putin. That’s my next call,” Trump told the Fox News hosts when asked about uncertainty in the oil market sparked by a feud between Russia and Saudi Arabia.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.