Trump plans to invite Putin to Washington this fall By LOUIS NELSON and STEPHANIE MURRAY 07/19/2018 10:02 AM EDT Updated 07/19/2018 04:19 PM EDT
President Donald Trump asked his national security adviser to invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to Washington this fall, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Thursday afternoon.
The statement comes after Trump teased a second meeting with Putin on Twitter earlier in the day. Sanders says the president tasked National Security Adviser John Bolton with extending an invitation to the Russian leader.
"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," Sanders said in a tweet.
Trump wrote online Thursday that he is looking forward to a second sitdown with Putin, insisting that his much-criticized bilateral meeting with him on Monday was in fact a “great success†that the media have unfairly covered negatively.
“The Summit with Russia was a great success, except with the real enemy of the people, the Fake News Media. I look forward to our second meeting so that we can start implementing some of the many things discussed, including stopping terrorism, security for Israel, nuclear proliferation, cyber attacks, trade, Ukraine, Middle East peace, North Korea and more,†the president wrote on Twitter. “There are many answers, some easy and some hard, to these problems...but they can ALL be solved!â€
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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/19/trump-russia-putin-second-meeting-732358
