After criticism, Trump delays second Putin meeting to next year

By Steve Holland

 

U.S. President Donald Trump walks from Marine One as he returns from Kansas City, Missouri, to the White House in Washington, DC, U.S., July 24, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will postpone a second meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin until next year after the federal probe into Russian election meddling is over, national security adviser John Bolton said on Wednesday.

 

Trump said last week he would invite Putin to Washington for an autumn meeting, a daring rebuttal to fierce criticism over their summit in Helsinki, in which he appeared to give credence to the Russian leader's assertion that Moscow did not interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

 

The invitation sparked a new outcry, including from lawmakers in Trump's Republican party, who argued that Putin is an adversary not worthy of a White House visit and that they still did not know what the leaders had discussed during their two-hour, one-on-one meeting.

 

"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," Bolton said in a statement.

 

U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Moscow interfered to sway the vote towards Trump, and Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating whether Trump's campaign worked with the Russians.

 

Trump rejected the criticism sparked by his Helsinki news conference with Putin and said he misspoke in a series of flip-flops over the summit. He then abruptly issued the invitation to Putin.

 

Reflecting the unease among U.S. lawmakers, House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday that Putin would not be invited to address Congress or visit the Capitol if he accepted Trump's invitation.

 

The Kremlin said this week that although Washington and Moscow agreed there was a need for another Putin-Trump meeting, Russia had not yet begun any practical preparations for a new meeting.

 

"There are other options (to meet) which our leaders can look at," aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters, citing a meeting of G20 leaders in Argentina which starts at the end of November.

 

Trump has repeatedly called Mueller's probe into meddling in the 2016 election a "witch hunt," a claim that he repeated in a tweet the same day he met with Putin in Helsinki.

 

(Reporting by Steve Holland; Writing by Doina Chiacu and Mary Milliken; editing by James Dalgleish, Leslie Adler and Jonathan Oatis)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-07-26

 

So how is Trump going to get fresh marching orders from Vlad now?

Gee.    

 

What went wrong?

Putin canceled it.  The last meeting backfired 

Edited July 26, 20187 yr by Redline

Not hard to figure this one out. Fellow republicans strongly complained to him that having that Putin's poodle / Putin meeting at the white house so close to the midterm elections would be damaging to their campaigns (which are already hard enough). 

 

There had already been bipartisan support expressing that vicious Russian dictator Putin that although welcome by Putin's poodle at the white house was definitely not welcome to visit anywhere near congress. 

Edited July 26, 20187 yr by Jingthing

Awwww no lap time for Donald he will be so sad it’s true Putin canceled Donald is playing catch up

because Trump claims Russia is interfering in US midterms to help Democrats

Donald J. Trump

 

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I’m very concerned that Russia will be fighting very hard to have an impact on the upcoming Election. Based on the fact that no President has been tougher on Russia than me, they will be pushing very hard for the Democrats. They definitely don’t want Trump!

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What an amazing cluster f#$@ the Trump administration is. 24/7 365 amusement. Go Trump 2020!

1 hour ago, Redline said:

Putin canceled it.  The last meeting backfired 

Trump was sporting a woody and Putin didn't like that.

46 minutes ago, Opl said:

because Trump claims Russia is interfering in US midterms to help Democrats

Donald J. Trump

 

✔ @realDonaldTrump

 

 

I’m very concerned that Russia will be fighting very hard to have an impact on the upcoming Election. Based on the fact that no President has been tougher on Russia than me, they will be pushing very hard for the Democrats. They definitely don’t want Trump!

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This is the narrative that the Trumpistas will use to invalidate/excuse their probable mid-term election loses.

Edited July 26, 20187 yr by otherstuff1957

1 hour ago, Redline said:

Putin canceled it.  The last meeting backfired 

Putin is greedy little bugger. He won't settle with the current status quo of having only half of the USA under his control, he want's to own the whole country. 

 

 

4 hours ago, pegman said:

So how is Trump going to get fresh marching orders from Vlad now?

 

By Tweets or Twitters  or Twatters of course.

Putin figures his next meeting with POTUS will be with Pence46 - after discarding Useful_Idiot45, and one can only imagine the dirt they've got on him.

 

 

10 hours ago, webfact said:

After criticism, Trump delays second Putin meeting to next year

Translated this means that Republican politicians wanted it moved back to prevent another fiasco shortly before the midterm elections.

Translated this means that Republican politicians wanted it moved back to prevent another fiasco shortly before the midterm elections.

Yes. Obviously.

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14 hours ago, oilinki said:

Putin is greedy little bugger. He won't settle with the current status quo of having only half of the USA under his control, he want's to own the whole country. 

 

 

He is the boss 

1 hour ago, Redline said:

He is the boss 

Putin might want to show himself as the boss. He however is not a leader. 

 

 

7 hours ago, oilinki said:

Putin might want to show himself as the boss. He however is not a leader. 

 

 

 

Trump is neither. 

On 7/25/2018 at 11:35 PM, Opl said:

because Trump claims Russia is interfering in US midterms to help Democrats

Donald J. Trump

 

✔ @realDonaldTrump

 

 

I’m very concerned that Russia will be fighting very hard to have an impact on the upcoming Election. Based on the fact that no President has been tougher on Russia than me, they will be pushing very hard for the Democrats. They definitely don’t want Trump!

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And yet Trump still objects to investigating past Russian meddling.  Still acting like someone with something (a lot) to hide.

9 hours ago, oilinki said:

Putin might want to show himself as the boss. He however is not a leader. 

 

 

He is a controller though 

CNN is reporting Cohen is flipping on Trump.  

 

That trip to Russia could be permanently delayed.

10 minutes ago, wcaldwell said:

CNN is reporting Cohen is flipping on Trump.  

 

That trip to Russia could be permanently delayed.

"trump" already went to Russia.

It was a disaster.

What was delayed was Putin's visit to the white house which Putin wasn't interested in doing so soon anyway. 

Putin has very little gain and lots to lose by going to D.C. anyway.

He already won big time in Moscow. 

 

On the Cohen flipping thing. Yes, he has flipped. "trump" keeps saying no collusion. He clearly really meant -- yes collusion. He knew about and approved of the collusion meeting with the Russian government linked lady at "trump" tower. Of course it was obvious he must have known already, but the smoking guns are warming up now. 

Edited July 27, 20187 yr by Jingthing