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President Donald Trump blamed the United States, and not Russian election meddling or the country's annexation of Crimea, for a low-point in U.S.-Russia relations hours before a summit with Vladimir Putin that played out against a backdrop of fraying Western alliances, a new peak in the Russia investigation and fears that Moscow's aggression may go unchallenged.
Forget "Make America Great Again." What President Donald Trump truly cares about is "MTGA" -- "Make Trump Great Again," and we saw another example of this objective over the weekend.
Putin must wonder what else America knows about Russia - When Russian President Vladimir Putin sits down at the table in Helsinki on Monday, he will surely have in the back of his mind some intelligence worries that have nothing to do with the U.S. president seated across from him.
Putin must wonder what else America knows about Russia - When Russian President Vladimir Putin sits down at the table in Helsinki on Monday, he will surely have in the back of his mind some intelligence worries that have nothing to do with the U.S. president seated across from him.
President Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrived in Helsinki on Sunday, the eve of Mr. Trump's highly anticipated summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. more > President Trump walked into a meeting Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin expecting to get little or nothing out of high-stakes talks, while inviting criticism from Democrats and Republicans back home for his kid-glove treatment of the former KGB officer.
A Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said that since President Donald Trump has "believed" President Vladimir Putin's denials that the Russian government meddled in the 2016 U.S. election, it "belies common sense" that Trump "is going to sit down across from Putin and press him hard on the issue of Russian meddling." "He has already said that he has asked Putin about meddling," Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy said of Trump on Sunday in an interview on This Week .
More than 2,000 people denounced attacks on human rights, press freedom and dissent in Helsinki. HELSINKI: Protesters in the Finnish capital on Sunday denounced the meeting of a "man-baby" and "evil spy" as Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin prepared to go head to head in a historic summit clouded by Russia's alleged manipulation of the 2016 US election.
U.S. first lady Melania Trump says she and her Finnish counterpart had a "good conversation about issues facing our nations." Mrs. Trump says in a tweet that she enjoyed Monday's talk, adding "Thank you to @JenniHaukio for hosting me!" Haukio is the wife of Sauli Niinisto , the president of Finland, which is welcoming Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin of Russia for a summit.
US President Donald Trump has played golf at his course on Scotland's west coast ahead of a summit with Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin that could be overshadowed by accusations of Russian meddling in the 2016 US election. In an uproarious trip to Europe, Trump harangued members of the NATO military alliance, scolded Germany for its dependence on Russian energy and shocked Britain by publicly criticising Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit strategy.
Demonstrators march in Edinburgh, Scotland, to protest President Trump during his visit to the country. Trump is spending the weekend out of the spotlight at his golf resort at Turnberry.
ELLESBOROUGH, England - The Friday indictment of a dozen Russian nationals for hacking into the Democratic National Committee landed days before President Donald Trump is set to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, adding a stunning new dimension to a meeting already fraught with tension. Hours before Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced the charges, Trump vowed to ask Putin "firmly" about Moscow's involvement in the last presidential election, but he warned that the "stupidity" of domestic politics and the special counsel's ongoing probe into the issue was holding back U.S.-Russian relations.
US President Donald Trump looks on as he holds a news conference after participating in the NATO Summit in Brussels, Belgium July 12, 2018. [Photo/Agencies] In a summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump unleashed a barrage of criticism against NATO, saying that the NATO members' tariffs on US goods are unfair given that they are protected by the United States.
With his efforts to help Donald Trump become president by meddling in the 2016 election, Vladimir Putin has already done more to advance Russia's foreign policy goals and worldview than anything he could have imagined in his wildest dreams as a longtime KGB agent. He has succeeded in sowing discord in the West without firing a shot, at low cost and with relatively few consequences as the Kremlin continues nefarious cyber and propaganda activities around the globe.
As the Helsinki summit approaches, President Trump appears to be on the verge of acquiescing to parts of the belligerent strategy and behavior that Moscow has been pursuing for decades. The summit will be a culmination of Trump's often-proclaimed eagerness for better relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she wants to know what leverage the Russians have over President Donald Trump, but wouldn't say whether she'd favor hearings on the question should Democrats take control of the House next year. Some of the party's most liberal members want to aggressively attack Trump to mobilize progressive voters.
President Donald Trump's broadsides against NATO have rattled a 69-year military alliance that largely defined the global order following World War II. But Trump isn't the only modern U.S. president to raise questions about the reliance of European nations on American defense spending.
Donald Trump has arrived in Britain for talks with Theresa May just hours after attacking the Prime Minister's Brexit plan and highlighting Cabinet divisions. The US president landed in Air Force One at Stansted Airport in Essex at lunchtime on Thursday at the start of a four-day UK visit expected to see protesters take to the streets in large numbers.
President Donald Trump is continuing to hammer NATO nations over their defense spending as he prepares for a second day of meetings in Brussels. Trump says presidents have been trying to get "Germany and other rich NATO Nations" to pay toward protection from Russia.
A Massachusetts hiker whose failure to notify his wife that he was spending the night in a hotel and prompted an extensive search and rescue operation in the White Mountains has donated $3,000 to the... Brandon Gillis does not think he played his best two rounds of golf at the 115th New Hampshire Amateur Championship Wednesday at Hanover Country ... (more)