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WSJ analyst: Time to 'take away gramp's phone’
What happened
Wall Street Journal columnist Holman W. Jenkins Jr. said it would be time to “take away gramps’s phone” if President Donald Trump accepted Vladimir Putin’s supposed promise that surrendering additional Ukrainian cities in the Donbas could earn Trump a Nobel Prize. As AlterNet reports it, Jenkins was mocking what he sees as Trump’s susceptibility to flattery, not describing a documented proposal from Putin.
Jenkins argued that Trump was pressuring Ukraine to stop attacking Russian refineries while offering Russia incentives without meaningful coercion. He characterized Trump’s…
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