Donald Trump has invited Russian President Putin to come and visit him in the American chief executive’s personal office…The White House…
That was before the British Prime Minister pushed Trump into doing somethings he probably did NOT want to do against the Russian’s for actions they have taken…
For a layman?
It appears that the Russian President IS leveraging whatever he has on Trump to advance his agenda….
Donald Trump IS afraid of pissing off Putin…
Trump’s State Department will have to follow ups for their boss….
Those in the trenches in the intelligence community HAVE TO BE unhappy with the idea that Russians will hanging around in the American President’s home and office with his people…
One hopes Robert Mueller can find out WHAT Putin has that is scaring Trump….
U.S. President Donald Trump didn’t just propose a summit meeting to Vladimir Putin when he called the Russian leader last month. He invited him to the White House, according to the Kremlin.
“When our presidents spoke on the phone, Trump suggested having the meeting in Washington at the White House,” Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters on Monday. “This is quite an interesting, positive idea.”
The prospect of Putin visiting Washington is likely to sharpen divisions in the U.S. over relations with Russia amid continued tensions regarding alleged Kremlin meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. Russia denies meddling. Trump won bipartisan praise in Congress for ordering the expulsion last week of 60 Russian diplomats regarded as spies, the most since 1986, in a display of unity with Europe after the U.K. blamed Putin’s government for the March 4 nerve-agent attack on former spy Sergei Skripal in England.
While Trump and Putin ordered summit preparations to begin after their phone call, the expulsions meant “there was no time for discussion and there wasn’t even anyone to discuss it with,”…..
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As to be expected….
Putin says no agreement to come unless he gets something more…
Breaking….
Trump’s push for a second face to face with Russian President Putin is now on hold….
Trump…citing Mueller says he’ll wait until next year to get together with Putin….
I don’t see why he can’t see the guy during Sept.’s UN meetings?
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Benjy Sarlin
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Benjy Sarlin Retweeted Chad Pergram
Bolton just now: “The President believes that the next bilateral meeting with President Putin should take place after the Russia witch hunt is over, so we’ve agreed that it will be after the first of the year.”
Two different administrations.