Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., said President Donald Trump “got played for a fool” and embarrassed the U.S. in his summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, made his comments on Friday during an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”
“There are a number of us who warned about this,” Warner noted.” We said why would you send in Donald Trump who prides himself on not doing any preparation against a trained KGB agent, 18 years as leader of his country.
"He (Putin) would come in prepped and I was terrified and I think this may have been what happened, Putin will come in with facts, with details, might have come in with a map of Ukraine and Syria and Trump got played.
"He got played for a fool and he embarrassed our country and frankly embarrassed lots of my colleagues across the board, Democrats, Republicans alike, so we are going to need to figure out ways to put some constraints.”
And he said it is “outrageous” Trump is planning to meet with Putin again before the November election.
“I wonder why Mr. Trump continues to be willing to kind of kowtow to this autocrat?
Warner had said before that during Trump’s summit with Putin he had hoped another American was in the room during the meeting.
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