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- ABC News
- Donald Trump
- July 25, 2018
Trump's proposed summit with Putin delayed
John Bolton said the meeting will occur when the "Russia witch hunt is over."
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Trump had instructed Bolton to extend an invitation to Putin to come to Washington for a second bilateral meeting – an offer that came on the heels of the two leaders' meeting in Helsinki. President Trump drew sharp bipartisan criticism for his performance and for not publicly confronting Putin about Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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The president ultimately walked back his remarks and said he accepted the intelligence community's assessment.
In Helsinki, @POTUS agreed to ongoing working level dialogue between the two security council staffs. President Trump asked @Ambjohnbolton to invite President Putin to Washington in the fall and those discussions are already underway.
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) July 19, 2018
During an interview at the Aspen Security Forum on Thursday, President Trump's Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats expressed surprise when notified that the White House had extended an invitation to Putin.
\"Say that again?” Coats responded with a laugh. \"OK, that’s going to be special.\"
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats informed on stage at Aspen Security Forum that the Trump administration has invited Vladimir Putin to the White House.
— ABC News (@ABC) July 19, 2018
\"Say that again,\" he responds. https://t.co/RBdhdILVas pic.twitter.com/TZal1Xb4Yi
But on Saturday, Coats said the comment was not meant as a slight to the president and blamed the media for mischaracterizing the response.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan tried to distance the House of Representatives from the invitation by saying that Putin would not be invited to address Congress in the U.S. Capitol because \"that is something we reserve for allies.\"
Putin described the first summit as \"successful\" and accused unnamed \"forces\" within the U.S. of preventing an improvement in U.S.-Russia relations. In terms of whether or not relations would develop further, Putin alluded to the existence of a \"path to positive change\" but demurred, saying \"We will see how things develop further.\"
On Tuesday, Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov told reporters that Trump and Putin may just meet on the sidelines of the G20 in Argentina in November.
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