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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRussias Oval Office Victory Dance
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/10/james-comey-firing-trump-lavrov-putin-215124When President Donald Trump hosted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Oval Office Wednesday just hours after firing the FBI director who was overseeing an investigation into whether Trumps team colluded the Russians, he was breaking with recent precedent at the specific request of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The chummy White House visitphotos of the president yukking it up with Lavrov and Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak were released by the Russian Foreign Ministry since no U.S. press was allowed to cover the visithad been one of Putins asks in his recent phone call with Trump, And indeed the White House acknowledged this to me later Wednesday. He chose to receive him because Putin asked him to, a White House spokesman said of Trumps Lavrov meeting. Putin did specifically ask on the call when they last talked.
The meeting was Lavrovs first in the White House since 2013and came after several years of the Obama administrations flat-out refusal to grant him an Oval Office audience, two former senior White House officials told me. The Russians were begging us for years to do that, one of the former officials said. They were constantly pushing for it and we were constantly saying no.
The images of Trump putting his arm genially on Lavrovs backand a later White House official readout of the meeting that said Trump emphasized his desire to build a better relationship between the United States and Russiacouldnt have come at a more fraught political moment for Trump, amid a barrage of bipartisan criticism of his firing of FBI director James Comey. On Wednesday morning before meeting with Trump, Lavrov even cracked a joke about his hosts political predicament, laughingly claiming not to have heard of the Comey firing while standing alongside Trumps Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
In other words, Lavrov was right where he has always wanted to be Wednesday: mocking the United States while being welcomed in the Oval Office by the president himself.
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Russias Oval Office Victory Dance (Original Post)
deminks
May 2017
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Barack_America
(28,876 posts)1. Shameful.
Feathery Scout
(218 posts)2. Trump Disgusts Me.
He shames the United States. The legacy of the White House. The office of the President