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Trump Tells Putin ‘Don’t Meddle In the Election' at G20 Meeting
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Jun 28, 20190:31Now PlayingThe U.S. and Russia have "many things to discuss, including trade, some disarmament and some.. a little protectionism perhaps."
Trump and Putin meet on day 1 of the #G20Summit in Osaka, Japan.
Prompted by a reporter’s question, President Donald Trump asked Russian President Vladimir Putin not to interfere in the upcoming U.S. election during a meeting at the Group of 20 summit.
“Don’t meddle in the election, please,” Trump said to Putin after a reporter asked whether he would warn the Russian leader. Trump wagged his finger. “Don’t meddle in the election,” he repeated.
Putin didn’t respond, but the two leaders shared a smile.
Trump has repeatedly disputed the consensus of U.S. intelligence officials that the Kremlin interfered in the 2016 election, and has often chided reporters who ask whether he’ll warn Putin against further meddling in 2020.
“What I say to him is none of your business,” he told reporters on Wednesday before departing for the summit in Osaka, Japan.
Putin has denied that Russia interfered in the 2016 election, and Trump sided with him at a summit in Helsinki in July. The U.S. president was castigated by lawmakers back home over the incident, forcing him to later walk back the remarks.
The meeting was the first extended encounter between the men since their Helsinki summit. It’s also the first time Trump and Putin have met since the conclusion of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian election interference. Mueller determined that there were “multiple, systematic efforts” by the Russians to interfere in the 2016 election, and that the meddling deserved the attention of all Americans.
U.S. officials recently warned that Russia is likely to again attempt an interference campaign in the 2020 elections.
For Moscow, the meeting helps promote Putin’s status as a prominent world leader despite years of efforts by the U.S. and its allies to isolate him. Trump canceled a meeting with Putin before November’s G-20, citing Russia’s capture of Ukrainian ships and sailors in a Black Sea naval clash. Russia has yet to release them. Trump didn’t mention the incident ahead of the Osaka G-20.
A U.S. official said before the summit that Trump would seek to improve relations with Russia in the meeting. He’s virtually alone in Washington in desiring warmer relations with the Kremlin, which is regarded by most U.S. lawmakers as acting against American interests across the globe.
Putin has provided military support for Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria and is working with Germany to construct a natural gas pipeline, Nord Stream 2, through the Baltic Sea. Russia is trying to close a deal with Turkey to sell the NATO country an anti-aircraft missile system, a transaction the U.S. has threatened would lead to sanctions against Ankara.
Since Trump and Putin last met, the U.S. president withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, citing violations by Russia. Trump has periodically said he’d like to negotiate a new arms control agreement with Putin.
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