President Trump said he and Russian President Vladi­mir Putin discussed the end of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election during a lengthy phone call Friday but said he did not raise concerns about the possibility of Russian interference to come in the 2020 contest. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office hours after the call with Putin, Trump described a brief exchange about the conclusion of the two-year investigation. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)Trump was asked repeatedly whether he raised the issue of election interference or warned Putin not to do it again. After the two leaders met in Helsinki last July, Trump accepted what he called Putin’s “extremely strong and powerful” denial of election interference, despite the opposite conclusion by American intelligence agencies. We want to get some humanitarian aid,” Trump told reporters at the White House.

Source: Washington Post May 03, 2019 16:49 UTC