The White House Can't Contain the Russia Story
Updated on July 19 at 2:37 p.m. EST
The White House hasn’t lost control of the narrative surrounding President Donald Trump and Russia, because it never had control in the first place. The fallout from the past few days following Trump’s explosive press conference with Vladimir Putin has further exposed the deficiencies in the administration’s messaging capabilities, as the cleanup effort has been badly outmatched by new developments and the president’s muddled statements.
The week began that the Russians meddled in the 2016 election. After almost 24 hours of backlash, during which administration officials largely went mum, Trump , reading a prepared statement in which he said that he accepts the intelligence community’s findings—though he his own claim.
