Despite Deep Policy Divides, Europe Trip Seen by Buoyant Trump as High Point<br />President Trump said that he heard firm assertions from Russian President Putin<br />that it is not true and that Russian authorities have not meddled in the elections," Mr. Lavrov told journalists at the summit.<br />Jason Miller said that This week’s trip gave the country a very clear sense of the president’s foreign policy philosophy<br />and reiterated the long-term objective of restoring America’s greatness on the world stage,<br />At times, the exchange became heated, the aide said, with Mr. Putin loudly demanding proof from a president who has himself repeatedly<br />cast doubt on United States intelligence agencies for declaring that Russia tried to swing the election to Mr. Trump.<br />that’s it," the foreign minister said. that said that he accepts these assertions —<br />And while Mr. Trump’s aides said he has little in common politically with the anarchists<br />and anti-globalism protesters in the streets of this gritty port city, they said the president intuitively understood their rage in a way that few other leaders at the summit could.<br />Do we have the desire and the courage to preserve our civilization in the face of those who would subvert<br />and destroy it?" Mr. Trump labored for hours on the wording in the address — widely praised as one of his most ideologically coherent by the conservative press — on the flight over with his chief speechwriter, Stephen Miller, and his national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster.
