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Posted on 07/19/2018 3:36:57 PM PDT by jazusamo
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Thursday that President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin shouldn't hold additional one-on-one meetings until the administration details what happened during Monday's Helsinki summit.
“Until we know what happened at that two hour meeting in Helsinki, the president should have no more one-on-one interactions with Putin. In the United States, in Russia, or anywhere else," Schumer said in a statement.
Talk of a second meeting comes days after the two leaders met one-on-one for two hours in Helsinki. Trump sparked widespread backlash during a press conference after the meeting by refusing to condemn Moscow's meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
He then tried to walk back his comments on Tuesday saying he accepts the intelligence community's assessment that Russia interfered in the election but added that "other people" could have meddled as well.
Senators in both parties said this week that they were largely in the dark about what, if anything, Trump and Putin agreed to during their closed-door session.
Democrats have used Trump's rhetoric in the wake of the summit to question what deals the presidents might have made in Helsinki and if Russia has "damaging information" on the president.
"What could possibly cause President Trump to put the interests of Russia over those of the United States? Millions of Americans will continue to wonder if the only possible explanation for this dangerous behavior is the possibility that President Putin holds damaging information over President Trump," Schumer said earlier this week.
Despite backlash over the Helsinki, Trump has touted the sit-down as a success and signaled earlier Thursday that he wants to have a second meeting.
"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," Trump said in a tweet.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Thursday afternoon that the president has asked national security adviser John Bolton to invite Putin to the United States.
"President Trump asked @Ambjohnbolton to invite President Putin to Washington in the fall and those discussions are already underway," she said in a tweet.
Schumickie needs to get a life working with Ditch to MAGA.
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Hey chuck. I got your Helsinki right HERE!
hey sparky your gal lost you don’t get to make the rules the winners set terms and losers like you get the shaft
Hey, Schmucky Choomer: Get elected Emperor Of The World and you can make pronouncements like this.
Until then STFU.
CHUCKY NEEDS A ENIMA
ha ha ha
I’m amazed at the smugness of these idiots. This coming from the party that produced Obama and his “Tell Vladimir I’ll have more flexibility after the election”.
I hope Putin and Trump keep right on meeting. Screw Schumer and rest of the demodummies nazis.
With Schumer it’s the Donkey he rode in on.
I'm not positive but I believe Just A Nobody came up with it, haven't seen her post in several years.
Yep. Putin has the dirt on everyone in the DNC and Clinton machine. Obama too, but will be held back. It’s a pure Clinton & Co. dump along with the related IC cronies.
The nerve of that guy!
LOL. This does it. Now Trump will for sure have a one on one.
Isn’t Pence the defacto president of the senate? Why doesn’t he sit down Schmucky and tell him to knock the crap off?
Newsflash Chuckie, Mr President doesn’t give a rat’s ass what you think. Who died and left you boss?
Go yuck fourself!
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