In the most embarrassing and unconscionable press conference between a sitting U.S. president and a leader of a hostile foreign power, Trump embraced Russia and Putin over his own country. In a performance just as bad as his Charlottesville debacle, when Trump said there were good neo-Nazis, Trump defended and took Putin's word over our entire federal government intelligence services. A reporter asked Putin why Americans and Trump should "believe your statement that Russia did not intervene in the 2016 election, given the evidence that u.s.