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Arkansas Granny

(31,483 posts)
Wed Jul 25, 2018, 03:14 PM Jul 2018

White House pushes follow-up Trump-Putin meeting to next year

The White House on Wednesday pushed to next year President Trump’s planned meeting with Russian President Vladi­mir Putin, a move that comes amid intensifying criticism of Trump’s conflicting statements on Russian interference in U.S. elections.

“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,” national security adviser John Bolton said in a statement, referring to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.

Trump has sharply criticized the investigation.

Last week, the White House announced that Trump had asked Bolton to invite Putin to Washington in the fall for a follow-up meeting to their summit in Helsinki this month.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-pushes-follow-up-trump-putin-meeting-to-next-year/2018/07/25/a8e1ed4c-9039-11e8-bcd5-9d911c784c38_story.html?utm_term=.d9dcedf79731&wpisrc=al_politics__alert-politics&wpmk=1

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White House pushes follow-up Trump-Putin meeting to next year (Original Post) Arkansas Granny Jul 2018 OP
They are praying for a blue wave to save Phoenix61 Jul 2018 #1
Too bad, it would have been a great event right before the elections RainCaster Jul 2018 #2
They expect gerrymandering to save the house poli3 Jul 2018 #3
That's gotta hurt gratuitous Jul 2018 #4
heh, heh Afromania Jul 2018 #5
First it was two weeks from Helsinki, then it was going to be the fall, now it's next year. Squinch Jul 2018 #6
Yep, Pootie Poot is just not into him anymore. brush Jul 2018 #7
And we STILL don't know what that was. Squinch Jul 2018 #8

poli3

(174 posts)
3. They expect gerrymandering to save the house
Wed Jul 25, 2018, 03:20 PM
Jul 2018

Then they fire the prosecutors and order the investigation to be closed after November.

Afromania

(2,767 posts)
5. heh, heh
Wed Jul 25, 2018, 03:31 PM
Jul 2018

Putin: Listen we had a really good time but this isn't wo.....

trump: AH, AH UM we should slow it down a little bit and, um, um see how we feel in few months? yea, right, ok yea let's do that!

Putin: sure, donald, sure.

trump: GREAT, ok (wink)

Putin:..................

Squinch

(50,773 posts)
6. First it was two weeks from Helsinki, then it was going to be the fall, now it's next year.
Wed Jul 25, 2018, 03:55 PM
Jul 2018

Poor whiny donnie. Could putin have broken up with him?

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