In 2018, when Donald Trump held a joint press conference with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the Helsinki Summit, it went so badly that his top Russia adviser, Fiona Hill, later said she had contemplated faking a seizure in an attempt to shut the whole thing down.
When Trump meets Putin in Alaska on Friday, Russian experts are not likely to be in the room.
In his second term in office, Trump has prioritised loyalty over experience from his senior aides, while waging an aggressive campaign to gut the rank and file of the federal workforce.
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