Swiss newspapers have joined US politicians of all colours in lambasting US President Donald Trump, who at a summit in Helsinki on Monday sided with long-time enemy Russia over his own intelligence agencies. “The betrayal of Helsinki” was the headline of the editorial in Zurich’s Tages-Anzeiger. “America First? As if. Donald Trump sounded more like Putin’s lawyer.” The paper wondered what a good summit between the two leaders could have looked like. Trump, it said, “who boasts about his bluntness”, could have clearly and unequivocally criticised Russian President Vladimir Putin for interfering in US elections and demanded that further attacks on the US stop. “But Trump chose another path. At the press conference not only did he refuse to hold Putin to account before the eyes of the world. He positioned himself much closer to Russia and declared, clearer than ever, that he – the President of the United States – believed the leader of Russia more than his own country’s ...
