Hillary Clinton trolls Trump before his summit meeting with Putin

But Trump says in a tweet that he’s received “many calls from leaders of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation countries” thanking him for helping “to get them focused on financial obligations, both present & future”.

Trump told CBS News that he is going into the meeting with Putin with “low expectations”, but repeated that he thinks it’s “a good thing to meet”. “But if we are going to solve numerous problems facing our world, then we are going to have to find ways to cooperate in pursuit of shared interests”.

“I think we have a lot of foes”.

Trump also declined to challenge Putin’s insistence that his country did not meddle in the 2016 USA presidential election, even though US intelligence agencies under two administrations and the Republican-controlled Senate Intelligence Committee concluded that Moscow sought to skew the election toward Trump.

Earlier, the pair met for a brief media session at about 7:10 a.m. before they held their first talks.

As he has done before, Trump attacked the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russian election interference.

Prime Minister Theresa May did not ask Donald Trump to raise the Salisbury poisonings with Vladimir Putin in their meeting in Helsinki, Downing Street has said. “It’s kept us apart, it’s kept us separated”.

Also in the question period, Putin said Russian Federation had no compromising information on Trump and that he was unaware that Trump was even in Russian Federation during Trump’s several visits.

Thank you for signing up for the 3 Things to Know Newsletter. “There was nobody to collude with”.

For Putin, the fact that the summit is even happening despite Russia’s semi-pariah status among some Americans and US allies is a geopolitical win because, in Russian eyes, it shows that Washington recognizes Moscow as a great power whose interests must be taken into account.

South Florida doesn’t have a ton of military value, and it’s likely that Russian Federation showed the video as a direct threat to Trump, who owns property there.

The event today will also try to warm relations between Russian Federation and the U.S. since the annexation of Crimea by Russian Federation in 2014. “And hopefully we will solve every one of the problems that we discussed today”.

His one-on-one meeting with Putin lasted nearly two hours.

Casey added, “Instead of holding Vladimir Putin accountable in Helsinki, President Trump embraced him and in doing so diminished America’s standing in the worldwide community and shamed the office of the presidency”. The leaders to discuss bilateral ties and various issues on the worldwide agenda.

He was meeting with Finland’s President Sauli Niinistö (SAW-lee KNEE-nes-tuh) in the hours before his highly anticipated summit with Putin. “These Russian individuals did their work during the Obama years”, Trump said on Twitter Saturday.

Asked on why he first called European Union as a foe, the US President asserted, “No, I look at them all”.

Democrats also wondered aloud whether Russian Federation has some sort of compromising information, or kompromat, on Trump that would allow Putin to control the relationship. “I think the world really wants us to get along”.

It is to be noted that relations between U.S. and Russia are greatly strained due to the crisis in Ukraine, Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2015, differences regarding Russian military intervention in the Syrian civil war, and the alleged meddling of 2016 United States presidential election.

He again described Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing investigation as a “witch hunt” that has hampered US relations with Russian Federation.

“I go in with very low expectations”. After meeting with Putin in Vietnam last November, he said he was done discussing it and that he believed the Russian leader’s denials were honest. The two presidents have already had a number of personal contacts. I have President Putin.