Guess which world leader Donald Trump really wants to meet soon
MATTHEW SHEFFIELD at Salon
http://www.salon.com/2017/06/26/guess-which-world-leader-donald-trump-really-wants-to-meet-soon/
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Despite the better judgment of some of his top aides, President Donald Trump is apparently eagerly trying to set up a meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin at an upcoming diplomatic summit in Germany.
According to the Associated Press, several advisers of Trump are trying to get him to scale back his efforts to conduct a full bilateral meeting with the Russian president at the G20 international meeting in Hamburg, Germany. These advisers believe that even appearing to be too friendly to Russia is particularly inadvisable for Trump given that countrys interference in the 2016 presidential election through hacking and propaganda.
Trump has further complicated matters by presenting multiple conflicting public statements about Russias efforts related to American politics. On June 22 the president said that the entire story was a big Dem HOAX.
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