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America is behaving like a country owned by Moscow. The man overseeing Donald Trump’s White House ballroom extension was handed a diplomatic passport, briefings and a security detail, then sent to St Petersburg to hold quiet talks with Kremlin officials, according to an exclusive in the Financial Times. Rodney Mims Cook Jr, chair of the US Commission of Fine Arts, met senior Putin aide Anton Kobyakov, passed along a “good hello from your friend, President Trump”, and described the roundtable of sanctioned Russian dignitaries as a great homecoming among old friends. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he was not even aware of the trip. The State Department, bypassed in favour of the ballroom guy. No self-respecting nation would accept this. When your interior decorator runs your Russia policy, the question of who actually owns whom answers itself.
Financial Times
FT Exclusive: The US official overseeing Donald Trump’s contentious White House ballroom extension held talks with Kremlin officials in Russia this summer as part of a quiet diplomatic mission, according to people familiar with the matter. https://ft.trib.al/2F8JWVt
