Trump, Vance ceded U.S. world leadership

In a Feb. 28 Oval Office meeting with a visiting wartime president, the president invoked the names of Washington and Lincoln in response to a question about legacy.

The U.S. president’s and vice president’s subsequent politically charged and misinformed bullying and attempted extortion of the Ukrainian president was beneath the dignity of the Office of the Presidency.

The citizens of the United States deserve better.

In the Oval Office, by his actions and words, the president of the United States has ceded the United States’ hard-earned role of the........

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