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Is Trump About to Get Played by Putin?

| July 05, 2017

Foreign policy experts fear Trump is no match for the former K.G.B. officer.

In the weeks since Trump fired James Comey—a move the president reportedly told Russian officials had removed the pressure on his administration—the Justice Department investigation has widened, and the potential optics of making concessions to Putin have only worsened. “The president is boxed in,” Nicholas Burns, who served as U.S. ambassador to NATO under Bush, told The Washington Post. “If you try to curry favor, offer concessions, pull back on the pressure, he’ll take advantage. He’ll see weakness in a vacuum.”

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Nicholas Burns

Nicholas Burns

  • United States Ambassador to the People's Republic of China
  • Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School
  • Member of the Board, Belfer Center
  • Faculty Chair, Future of Diplomacy Project
  • Faculty Chair, Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship
  • Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
  • Director, American Secretaries of State Project
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