Putin: Trump was ‘of no interest’ to Russian Federation before 2016 election

So you have some back and forth there within the USA administration. Bob Corker of Tennessee.

Trump told reporters he “spent a great deal of time” talking about the allegation with Putin, while Putin categorically denied any interference in the USA internal affairs.

Ojārs Kalniņš, a diplomat and former Latvian ambassador to the U.S who spoke at the Atlantic Council event, panned Trump’s remarks as “ridiculous”.

There was never a chance Donald Trump or Vladimir Putin where going to walk away from this summit declaring it a flop, a failure. “Standing alongside the Kremlin boss at a joint news conference, Trump acknowledged that his intelligence chiefs believe Russian Federation hacked and leaked Democrats” emails containing politically damaging information about his rival Hillary Clinton in 2016. And he appeared to lean toward Putin on the matter, saying: “I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today”.

He just said it’s not Russian Federation. Trump himself sounded sympathetic to the Russian position, saying: “I don’t see any reason why Russia would interfere in the 2016 election”.

“People came to me, [national intelligence director] Dan Coates came to me and some others, they said they think it’s Russia”, Mr Trump said.

Having denied Russian interference in the election and the possibility that the Russian government may have blackmail on Mr. Trump, Putin said that the USA and Russia are “starting to achieve some understanding” between each other.

The president said the summit was a first step building a bridge between the United States and Russian Federation. Another thing that is important is that President Trump was tweeting soon after.

Donald Trump is an “American patriot”, not a traitor to his country, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says. “The damage inflicted by President Trump’s naiveté, egotism, false equivalence, and sympathy for autocrats is hard to calculate. Republican Patriots: Where are you???” “But no, it would never occur to anyone that he would think of running for president”.

Just days after a special prosecutor indicted 12 Russian agents for stealing documents from the Democratic Party to help Trump win the 2016 presidential election, Trump went into his talks with Putin without a word of criticism for Moscow.

CBS News: “Washington reacts to Trump-Putin press conference with dismay” – “Republicans and Democrats alike are dismayed by President Trump’s comments at his joint press conference with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Monday. It makes us less safe”, Biden said of Trump’s remarks. In Helsinki, however, Trump was determined to accentuate the positive, as was Putin.

Wallace noted that “they don’t end up dead”.

United States President Donald Trump’s joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Finnish capital Helsinki has left policy analysts back in the USA perplexed – and ignited a fierce political backlash.

But the U.S. leader insisted that his counterpart had delivered a “powerful” denial of any Russian manipulation, and that the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller was proving a “disaster” for the United States.

Putin said he’d expect the U.S.to return the favor and cooperate in the Russian probe against William Browder, a British investor charged with financial crimes in Russia.

Critics and many analysts saw this as a capitulation to Mr Putin.

“President Putin says it’s not Russian Federation”.

President Donald Trump says the Russian Federation investigation has been a “disaster” for the United States and has kept America and Russian Federation “separated”. However, that changed as of about four hours ago.

Putin told Wallace he was optimistic that he and Trump could forge a better diplomatic relationship after Monday’s meeting, and reach consensus on issues like the denuclearization of North Korea and the START treaty, which is set to expire in 2021.

Trump also dismissed the idea in his interview with Hannity, adding, “If they had it, it would have been out”.

Trump “delivered us here with a display of cowardly self-interest”, Cuomo said, but this ended up bringing people together.