At G-20 Summit, a Smiling Trump Light-Heartedly Tells Putin: 'Don't Meddle in the Election, Please'

[DonViejo]

By Reed Richardson June 28th, 2019, 1:59 am

During a side-by-side photo op with Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit in Japan, a smiling President Donald Trump light-heartedly warned the Russian President to avoid interfering with the 2020 presidential race: “Don’t meddle in the election, please.”

Trump and Putin were sitting in chairs during a one-on-one sidebar at the international conference when a reporter shouted out: “Mr. President, will you tell Russia not to meddle in the 2020 election?”

“Yes, of course,” Trump replied. And then he turned slightly toward Putin — but without making eye contact — smiled and said, “Don’t meddle in the election, please.” A moment later, he pointed his finger in the general direction of Putin and repeated his request: “Don’t meddle in the election.”

Link to tweet

The cavalier demeanor and throwaway nature of Trump’s comments about Russian political interference in US elections, which a Special Counsel investigation just spent nearly two years investigating and documenting, was striking. It clearly evoked the last time the pair met at a summit in Helsinki in 2017, when Trump publicly sided with Putin in denying Russia’s influence on the 2016 election, contradicting the consensus of the US intelligence community.

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[bdamomma]

1. nod nod

wink wink. That sounds like the Russians are going to taper with the results again. I can't stand this thug and the Russian thug.

What an ass this POS is, joking around thinking it's no big deal. He needs to be impeached period.

The country can't through another 4 years of this idiot. We will have no more country.