Kremlin Says Donald Trump Has Invited Vladimir Putin to the White House

[DonViejo]

Source: The Daily Beast

President Trump has reportedly invited Vladimir Putin to the White House for a visit, according to a statement from the Kremlin. According to an Agence France-Presse reporter, a senior U.S. official did “not deny” that Trump “floated the idea of a White House summit,” noting that “no planning has begun as yet.” This comes after Trump reportedly congratulated Vladimir Putin on his re-election over the phone after his staff told him explicitly not to, a suspected poisoning of an ex Russian spy on British soil, and amid special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of alleged Trump campaign collusion with Russia in the 2016 presidential election.

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Trump has invited Putin to the White House — despite furor over poisoning of ex-Russian spy

BRAD REED
02 APR 2018 AT 09:09 ET

President Donald Trump has formally invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to a meeting at the White House, despite the continued furor over Russia’s alleged poisoning of ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal in the United Kingdom.

Agence France-Presse is reporting that Trump has proposed a White House meeting with Putin, despite the fact that the American government recently expelled dozens of Russian diplomats over that country’s alleged role in releasing a deadly nerve agent on the soil of America’s closest ally.

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Even though the American government has responded swiftly in its response to Russia’s nerve agent attack, Trump himself has been notably silent on Russia’s actions. During a recent telephone call with Putin last month, Trump ignored aides’ pleas to not congratulate the Russian president on his recent reelection, and he also neglected to mention Skripal’s poisoning.

In response to criticism over the call, Trump lashed out at the media and insisted that he still wanted to pursue stronger ties with the Russian government. “I called President Putin of Russia to congratulate him on his election victory (in past, Obama called him also),” the president wrote on Twitter. “The Fake News Media is crazed because they wanted me to excoriate him. They are wrong! Getting along with Russia (and others) is a good thing, not a bad thing.”

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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/trump-invited-putin-white-house-despite-furor-poisoning-ex-russian-spy/

[Chipper Chat]

1. note to the White House decorator:

Vladimir would prefer red drapes in his new office.

[dameatball]

2. Do not touch any doorknobs after he leaves....if he does leave.

[riversedge]

5. Very good advice.

[beachbum bob]

3. For trump's parade??

[CanonRay]

4. Arrest them both!

[SnowCritter]

6. Trump probably want to have a ceremony

where he turns over the keys to Putin.

[dalton99a]

7. "Russian president visits newly conquered territory"

[William Seger]

8. Mueller should indict Putin

[dalton99a]

19. +1. No travel to the U.S. for him

[keithbvadu2]

9. Does Putin really need an invite?

[Afromania]

10. Many in this country actively hate me and still I have pit of the gut disgust for inviting the

architect of the complete fuckery we're all experiencing at the moment. The "real patriots" have forever lost the right to call themselves anything but ignorant shit eating traitors. How can you say you give a damn about the country when you are willing to let outside powers screw your country over and dirty up the office of the president like this?

[NurseJackie]

11. They misspelled a word. It should be "submit" instead of "summit"

[dalton99a]

12. +1

[Achilleaze]

13. republicans who betray America and American democracy

are traitors, and history will mark them as such for eternity.

[notdarkyet]

14. Need a big protest to great him with signs that say GO Home. Scum not welcome here.

[Maeve]

15. Do we ALWAYS have to get our tRump-Putin info from the KREMLIN?!?!?!

Does the WH always have to defer to Moscow on telling us what is happening?

[dalton99a]

18. Trump does not dare to contradict Moscow headquarters

And he will not contradict them on this one

[smirkymonkey]

16. "NO COLLUSION!"

[sfwriter]

17. ...and AGAIN, we learn of this from the Russians.

Do you remember when the American media learned things from the White House, not fucking TASS?

[OliverQ]

20. It's getting hard not to feel defeated with how much

insanity and evil is going on in this country right now. It's a never ending onslaught and we just have to hope people turn out in November, otherwise America is finished as a country. Very discouraging and scary.

[Farmer-Rick]

21. I'm sure Trump will have his staff bowing to their real master

If Putin comes, we will have a huge protest waiting for this wrinkled little man.

[marble falls]

22. Doesn't Cheetolini get two things:

1. Optics. Jebus, Donnie - its not like we wouldn't find out about that and not have recourse in November and deliver a Democratic Congress (veto proof or not).
2. Governments fall over a stupid things like that. Neville Chamberlain went to Munich. Would it have been politically better for him if Hitler had come to London?

[RainCaster]

23. Trump has lots of papers he wants to share

Please tell me that he doesn't have access to any real documents any longer.