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The New York Times reports:
President Trump called on the world’s leading economies on Friday to reinstate Russia to the Group of 7 nations four years after it was cast out for annexing Crimea, once again putting him at odds with America’s leading allies in Europe and Asia.
The president made the suggestion to reporters as he headed to Canada for the annual meeting of the G-7, a gathering that already was promising to be crackling with tension over trade, Iran and Mr. Trump’s sharp-edged approach to foreign leaders.
Russia joined the group in the 1990s after emerging from the wreckage of the Soviet Union, making it the G-8, but its armed intervention in its neighbor Ukraine in 2014 and its seizure of the Crimean peninsula isolated it from other major powers.
Trump, whose actions risk alienating us from our closest allies and turning the G7 into the G6, is this morning complaining that Russia is no longer part of a G8. Pay attention to what he is doing on Russia again.
— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) June 8, 2018
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump calls for Russia, ousted from group of leading industrial nations after annexing Crimea, to be reinstated to G7.
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) June 8, 2018
Trump says Russia should be back in G7 (the former G8): “I am Russia’s worst nightmare… that being said Russia should be in this meeting.”
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) June 8, 2018
“Why are we having a meeting without Russia? I would recommend, and it is up to them, but Russia should be in the meeting,” President Trump says of G7 summit. “They should let Russia come back in because we should have Russia at the negotiating table.” https://t.co/gPokHDkAxK pic.twitter.com/7lB7RSNZaf
— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 8, 2018
This is what Putin calls “return on investment.” https://t.co/6TFDcLPfEA
— Ned Price (@nedprice) June 8, 2018