President Donald Trump’s high-stakes meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska reflects a “peace through strength” strategy rooted in former President Ronald Reagan’s legacy, presidential historian Craig Shirley told Newsmax Friday.
Asked if Trump’s remark that he would know “within the first two minutes” whether a deal could be reached meant he might walk away as Reagan did at the Reykjavik Summit in Iceland in 1986, Shirley told “The Chris Salcedo Show” that the circumstances differ.
“I really don’t know. It’s been over two minutes and he hasn’t walked,” said the author of “The Greatest Speeches of Donald J. Trump.”
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