President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, ending their summit without reaching a deal on ending the war in Ukraine.
“There’s no deal until there is a deal,” Trump told reporters at a press conference in Anchorage, Alaska, following a meeting between Trump, Putin, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, special envoy Steve Witkoff, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov. The summit lasted about two hours and 30 minutes.
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Earlier this week, Trump announced he will deploy National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., and take control of the capital city’s police force. Trump said the actions were necessary to “rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse.” Statistics, however, have shown crime rates are down in D.C.
Meanwhile, Trump is still grappling with backlash on both sides of the aisle over his administration’s handling of information on Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced sex offender and financier who died in 2019 under circumstances many have called into question.
