On the heels of the announcement of a US/Russia summit to be held in Helsinki, President Trump re-upped his continued contention that Putin is telling the truth about that which everyone in the world knows he is lying: “Russia continues to say they had nothing to do with Meddling in our Election!” NATO members, worried.

+ ABC News: Special counsel eyeing Russians granted unusual access to Trump inauguration parties.

+ “Charitable foundations are governed by a crucial compromise: they can operate without paying taxes on the condition that their leadership insures that all money spent is spent in pursuit of the public good. The case brought by Attorney General Underwood shows that the Trump Foundation was neither well-managed nor focussed on what would generally be considered the public good.” Adam Davidson in The New Yorker: The Inconvenient Legal Troubles That Lie Ahead for the Trump Foundation.