Trump plans July meeting with Putin
U.S. President Donald Trump is considering a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin next month, he said, according to Bloomberg.
“We’re looking at the possibility,” Trump said Thursday during a White House meeting with governors. The Putin summit is planned during a Trump visit to Europe already announced, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Two possibilities for the meeting are either before a NATO summit in Brussels on July 11 or after Trump’s visit to Britain on July 13, one of the people said. Both people asked not to be identified discussing the plans because they are not final.
White House National Security Council spokesman Garrett Marquis on Thursday confirmed in a tweet that U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton will visit Russia next week to discuss a “potential meeting” between Trump and Putin.
The White House did not comment further. Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, declined to comment on a conference call with reporters on Thursday, in which he also said that the Kremlin expects Bolton to visit Russia.
Trump had two meetings with Putin last summer at the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, Germany.