US President Donald Trump says he’ll raise election meddling and arms control when he and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet next week.
Trump also says he is “not happy about Crimea.” Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in 2014. Trump continues to blame his predecessor, president Barack Obama, for allowing that to happen.
Speaking at a news conference during a NATO summit in Brussels, Trump says that alliance members “actually thanked me” for meeting with Putin.
Trump has been criticized for seeking the one-on-one meeting with Putin, scheduled for Monday in Helsinki, in part because of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Trump describes it as a “loose meeting” and says “we’ll see where it leads.”
Says Trump: “I think meeting with people is great.”
— AP
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