Trump Won’t Commit To Pressing Putin On Meddling

The Hill reports:



President Trump in a new interview would not commit to addressing foreign election interference with Russian President Vladimir Putin when they meet at the G20 summit later this month. Asked by host Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Press” if he’d directly address the issue with Putin, Trump said, “I may.”

“Are you going to tell him not to do it?” Todd asked. “I may if you’d like me to do it, I’ll do that,” Trump replied. The president later dismissed the significance of his recent comments about potentially listening to damaging information against an opponent from a foreign power during an election.

Todd noted that some people interpreted the remarks as Trump inviting Putin to interfere in a U.S. election again, prompting Trump to shoot back, “Oh, that’s not true.”