Trump quickly and eagerly endorsed this idea (details here), notwithstanding that no prior President had ever capitulated in this fashion to a hostile foreign power. As the week wore on, however, it became clear one of the indivuduals Putin wanted his people to question and possibly charge was Michael McFaul, the former American ambassador to Russia, and the White House admitted the matter was under consideration.
Understandably, this caused a volcano of controversy to erupt. Trump was actually siding with a hostile foreign power against the United States. He was actually thinking about ignoring the former American ambassador's diplomatic immunity and just handing him over to a country hostile to America and against whom severe economic sanctions are already in place.
Needless to say, even Republicans in Congess were outraged with Trump supporting Russia and not his own country's diplomats. Yesterday, the Senate voted unanimously in opposition to what Trump was attempting to do. Finally yesterday afternoon, after three days of considering Putin's demand and talking it up, the White House capitulated. No American would be sent to Russia.
The fact that Trump actually considered Putin's demand for more than a nanosecond is shocking. It should have been rejected immediately.
Why does Trump consisistently and repeatedly back Russia without question while trashing his own country?
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