
Mike Pence is no profile in courage
CNN
Despite former Vice President Mike Pence's attempts to distance himself from former President Donald Trump, Peter Bergen writes that if Pence thinks this will give him a significant leg up over Trump, he has misjudged both the former president and his supporters.
Former President Donald Trump, of course, has been an Olympic-level Putin apologist for years. Just two days before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Trump praised Putin's actions in Ukraine as "savvy" and "genius."

As Trump’s ‘two week’ deadline for Russia expires, he faces a series of unresolved foreign conflicts
Two weeks after President Donald Trump set a 14-day timeline for determining the willingness of his Russian counterpart to end the conflict in Ukraine, he says he is coming to believe Vladimir Putin doesn’t care about the human cost of his war.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he plans to phase out the Federal Emergency Management Agency after this year’s hurricane season, offering the clearest timeline yet for his administration’s long-term plans to dismantle the disaster relief agency and shift responsibility for response and recovery onto states.