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Trump Invites Putin to the White House

Trump Invites Putin to the White House
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US President Donald Trump invited his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to visit Washington “in the fall” and the trip is already being discussed, the White House said.

Trump “asked Ambassador John Bolton to invite President Putin to Washington in the fall,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Thursday. “Those discussions are already underway.”

Trump and Putin met on Monday in Helsinki, Finland, their first summit since Trump took office in January 2017.

Trump faced a withering wall of opposition at home, however, both from Democrats who have accused him of “collusion” with Russia during the 2016 election and some in his own party who consider Russia an enemy not to be talked with.

Earlier on Thursday, Trump tweeted he was looking forward to the second meeting with Putin, so they could start implementing “some of the many things discussed, including stopping terrorism, nuclear proliferation, cyber-attacks, trade, Ukraine, Middle East peace, North Korea and more.”

Putin visited the US seven times previously, beginning with the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000. His most recent visit was in September 2015, according to the State Department, where he met then-President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting in New York.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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