What should Trump Discuss with Putin at Monday's Meeting?

What’s the story?

• Donald Trump will be meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on Monday, July 16.
• Trump told reporters on Thursday that he plans to raise election meddling during the one-on-one with Putin. However, the president added that Putin “may deny it” and “All I can do is say, 'Did you?' and 'Don't do it again.’”

• Late last month, Trump tweeted that “Russia continues to say they had nothing to do with Meddling in our Election!”
• As for other topics the two may discuss at their upcoming meeting:

“I think we go into that meeting not looking for so much. We want to find out about Syria. We will of course ask your favorite question about meddling. I will be asking that question again,” Trump said at a news conference at the end of a NATO summit in Brussels.

• Trump called the Russian leader “a competitor” but added Putin is “not my enemy.”

“Is he a friend? No, I don't know him well enough. But the couple of times that I've gotten to meet him, we got along well...I hope we get along well.”

Other potential topics of discussion

• A pledge of mutual non-interference in each other’s political systems.
• Russia’s involvement in the Syrian civil war.
• Russia being allowed back into the Group of Seven (G-7).
• Russia's annexation of Crimea.
• Moscow’s alleged use of a Soviet-era nerve agent on British soil.
• The “impenetrable Cyber Security unit” he and Putin were planning one year ago.

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—Josh Herman

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