Yesterday, US President Donald Trump held a press conference, the first time since the departure of Michael Flynn as the National Security Advisor over illegitimate conduct. Mr. Flynn contacted Russian ambassador Sergei Krisilyak and talked on sanctions on the very same day the Obama administration was imposing new sanctions on Russia. President Trump confirmed that he asked for Michael Flynn resignation after it broke out that he misled the Vice President Mike Pence on the details of the talk. Mr. Trump repeated that according to him, Mr. Flynn was doing his job; he didn’t ask him to do so but if Mr. Flynn would have asked him for permission, he would have given him the green signal to go ahead, so the main reason behind Mr. Flynn’s resignation was the misleading the Vice President.

This resignation has triggered outrage among democratic leaders who called for further investigation into President Trump’s connection with the Russians and anti-Trump media frenzy. Once again, Mr. Trump had his usual fight with the media, its dishonesty in covering him and declared that he has no connection, loans, or business in Russia. He stressed that the real news is the leaks that are coming out of the Washington illegally. He also said that this media frenzy with regard to Russia is making it difficult for the United States to normalize relations with Russia.

From all these Trump-media theatrical, the key points that came out that Mr. Trump isn’t worried on some of the recent aggression shown by Russia. He said that he understands that Russia is probably thinking with all these media pressure that the possibility of reconciliation is dead but he assured that he is unlike his predecessor and stressed that there are no upsides to bad relations with Russia as both are powerful nuclear-armed states and he would surely put efforts to do what is best for the country which is to normalize relations with Russia and for that matter with China or Japan.