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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP ASKED TO MEET VLADIMIR PUTIN ON SIDELINES OF UPCOMING G20 MEETING
Newsweek ^ | 13-05-19 | CRISTINA MAZA

Posted on 05/13/2019 11:28:27 AM PDT by McQ444

President Donald Trump has requested to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in late June on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Japan, according to media reports from Russia. Russian media reported that multiple Russian Foreign Ministry sources claimed Washington had reached out to Moscow to set up a meeting at the summit, which will be held on June 28 and 29 in Osaka. “We have always said that the presence of leaders at an event of the appropriate level would open such an opportunity,” Sergei Ryabkov, Russia’s deputy foreign minister, was quoted as saying in numerous reports. The reports were released one day before Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit on Tuesday to Sochi, Russia, to speak with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov about a variety of issues. Some reports claimed Pompeo would push the issue of a potential Trump-Putin meeting at this time.

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TOPICS: Humor; Local News; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: putin; trump

1 posted on 05/13/2019 11:28:27 AM PDT by McQ444
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Lol! I think at this point he's just enjoying making the democrat's and liberal media's heads explode...
2 posted on 05/13/2019 11:29:45 AM PDT by apillar
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To: McQ444

Probably gonna talk about grandkids and recipes.


3 posted on 05/13/2019 11:31:35 AM PDT by hollywood
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To: apillar

He’s always enjoyed that

I picture him sitting back and grinning ear to ear watching the Left freak out for 2 days over a Tweet that took him 15 seconds to tap out


4 posted on 05/13/2019 11:36:47 AM PDT by digger48
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5 posted on 05/13/2019 11:39:06 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: McQ444

How badly do you want to continue funding failed Cuba and Venezuela?

How badly do you want to sell oil to Europe from your pipeline?

So how much did you personally receive from the Podesta/Hillary campaign?


6 posted on 05/13/2019 11:40:42 AM PDT by mbarker12474
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To: McQ444

Good.

Putin is a Christian man and can be reasoned with.

I’d trust Trump one on one with Putin away from the Marxist hacks of the EU


7 posted on 05/13/2019 11:49:06 AM PDT by WashingtonFire (We stand for God, For Country and for Trump)
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To: McQ444

This happens at EVERY G20 meeting, but all of the sudden it’s sinister.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/05/barack-obama-and-vladimir-putin-hold-blunt-meeting-at-g20/


8 posted on 05/13/2019 11:50:23 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: WashingtonFire

I’m old enough to remember when America was Christian and Russia wasn’t.


9 posted on 05/13/2019 11:51:16 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: McQ444

The media has colluded to suggest that Trump is selling out the nation’s interests every time he meets a foreign leader. The thing with Trump, though, is that these meetings don’t mean they’re buddy-buddy. He met with Xi earlier and the net result as of last Friday has been new 25% tariffs on $200b of Chinese imports. He has met privately numerous times with Putin but the anti-Russian actions just keep piling up.

Trump has said nice things about the leaders of the nation’s nuclear-armed adversaries while sticking the shiv in. That’s how he rolls. Whereas Obama’s strategy was to talk tough while doing nothing to address their transgressions. On Russia, Trump has authorized the destruction of a Russian mercenary unit in Syria involving over 200 dead Russians, supplied lethal aid to Ukraine, pulled out of nuclear arms treaties with Russia, increased defense expenditures targeted at the Russians (including nuclear weapons upgrades) *and* increased sanctions on Russia, none of which Obama would do, despite all of his tough talk. With people like Obama, words are a substitute for deeds. With Trump, words are a salve for the knife he is slipping between their ribs.


10 posted on 05/13/2019 11:54:28 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: kaehurowing

[I’m old enough to remember when America was Christian and Russia wasn’t.]


The abortion rate in Russia is 2x that in the US. If that makes them more Christian, maybe Planned Parenthood is really a Christian organization.
https://abort73.com/abortion_facts/worldwide_abortion_statistics/

Russia’s Muslim population is 12% of the total vs 0.6% of ours. Putin is also importing large numbers of Muslims from the Central Asian countries that used to be part of the Russian empire. Maybe they’ll all convert to Russian Orthodoxy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia#Religion
https://www.rferl.org/a/how-muslim-migrants-are-reshaping-russia-s-dying-countryside-one-village-at-a-time/29237540.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_States#Religion


11 posted on 05/13/2019 12:04:40 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: apillar

Just wait until he orders Russian dressing for his next salad.


12 posted on 05/13/2019 12:26:39 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: apillar

I need to learn to draw...I can imagine the entrance to the NYT building when they learn this:

“Fainting couches to the left, smelling salts to the right!”


13 posted on 05/13/2019 12:36:32 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: Can't control their emotions. Can't control their actions. Deny them control of anything.)
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To: McQ444

OMG! Russia! Russia! Russia!


14 posted on 05/13/2019 12:38:55 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: McQ444
Its ok as long as the meeting includes an exchange of these:


15 posted on 05/13/2019 12:42:33 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: McQ444

So? Two world leaders shouldn’t talk?


16 posted on 05/13/2019 12:43:42 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (I trust President Trump.)
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To: kaehurowing

[I’m old enough to remember when America was Christian and Russia wasn’t.]


Meanwhile, Putin’s handpicked leader for Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, is imposing Islamic law:
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2017/0920/Kremlin-frets-as-Russia-s-once-restive-Islamist-region-takes-up-political-Islam
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41036901

Post-Soviet Russia has no issues with political assassinations conducted against dissidents. So why is Russia becoming a font of Islamist warriors for ISIS? Why aren’t these people being killed before they get the chance to acquire training and contacts fighting in foreign lands?
https://www.dw.com/en/chechnya-islamic-states-fertile-russian-recruiting-ground/a-42311816


17 posted on 05/13/2019 12:46:59 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: McQ444

Trump may have wanted to float a deal with Putin to have Russia pull support for Maduro in exchange for keeping its investments there. Of course, the Deep State/Bolton/Pompeo gang want no such deals.


18 posted on 05/13/2019 1:07:12 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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Just wait until Trump tells Putin “ You think I’m tough now, just wait till after 2020 and I’ll have more flexibility”.


19 posted on 05/14/2019 3:59:51 AM PDT by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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“” “” Trump may have wanted to float a deal with Putin to have Russia pull support for Maduro in exchange for keeping its investments there. Of course, the Deep State/Bolton/Pompeo gang want no such deals.”” “”

Who Bolton and Pompeo are to tell other people where should they be or not?
I haven’t heard anyone told them to get out from Eastern Hemisphere.


20 posted on 05/14/2019 6:30:21 PM PDT by NorseViking
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