Scheduled to meet for a half hour yesterday, President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin went overtime, talking for two-and-a-half hours on a broad range of topics.
The meeting readout afterward provided different viewpoints from both sides regarding alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The two nations top diplomats provided commentary on the meeting.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson claimed the president pressured Putin at the outset to acknowledge the intrusion into the election. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov countered that President Trump had accepted Putin’s assurance that no such meddling occurred. Tillerson dismissed the Russian interpretation of the discussion.
As the first face-to-face meeting of the two leaders of the most powerful nations in the world, their discussion sucked all the oxygen and media attention out of the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany.
Learn how Putin countered the president’s insistence on discussing Russian interference and how it parallels the ongoing congressional investigations and media hype. The story continues on the next page.
the FBI is “determining whether any financial crimes were committed by people close to the president.” While Kushner’s public persona differs wildly from that of the president in the functioning of his real-estate work, he is a kind of mini Trump. Inheriting an empire from his father, he has operated in gray areas of the world economy and positioned himself to gain handsomely from Trump’s election. Kushner has met with the head of a Russian bank functionally controlled by Vladimir Putin. He appears to be eager to use his proximity to Trump to make a buck; his family business is exploiting the familial connection to sell visas in China. Trump himself has a long, nontransparent history of business dealings with organs of the Russian
all of this indicates high levels of panic in the Oval Office. Trump has almost certainly engaged in obstruction of justice for the simple reason that there is a lot of justice to obstruct.
Nothing illegal ….they were business people
Money laundering through casinos for years
You are f**e…trump has never panicked about anything…occupy dumbocrats again
He owns the building
He is and always was a pos but you can defend him and suck his$#%&!@*but the world knows what and who he really is
There were never 17 agencies looking into this. The AP has had to retract that statement. The fact you still think the Coast Guard was involved in this is hilarious. Lol
Sorry brother but I’m……
lol another f**e patriots from the republicans southern welfare state proud to take more fed tax then any other state