Trump and Putin Meet in Helsinki
A very fruitful round of negotiations
U.S. President Donald J. Trump and Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin met as part of the Russian-U.S. Summit in Helsinki, Finland, today. The meeting continues a long-standing tradition between the world’s two dominant nuclear powers, but took place amid a backdrop of deteriorating relations. After meeting for several hours the two presidents held a joint press conference, in which they expressed a tone of cooperation between the two states and a commitment to work together on issues like terrorism and nuclear non-proliferation. The two leaders also made their frustration and disdain for the allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election quite clear, as well.
I think we can call it a success and a very fruitful round of negotiations. – Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin
In response to questions from the media, Putin called out the global political influence of billionaire khakistocrat, George Soros, as well as accusing the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign of taking $400 million in campaign contributions from criminal “business associates of Mr. Browder [who] have earned over $1.5 billion in Russia. They never paid any taxes, neither in Russia nor in the United States, and yet the money escaped the country.” Trump also used the opportunity to highlight one of the more inconvenient issues for Hillary Clinton and her supporters and that is the issue of the email server she was keeping at her residence.
What happened to the servers of the Pakistani gentleman that worked on the DNC? Where are those servers? They’re missing. Where are they? What happened to Hillary Clinton’s emails? Thirty-three thousand emails gone — just gone. I think, in Russia, they wouldn’t be gone so easily. I think it’s a disgrace that we can’t get Hillary Clinton’s 33,000 emails. – U.S. President Donald Trump
The Mainstream Goes Apesh!t
U.S. mainstream press outlets and warmongering, neocon fixtures of the DC Beltway took to the airwaves and social media to express disgust at the fact that President Trump was acting presidential by making an overt attempt at improving relations between the United States and the number two nuclear power on Earth. For example, Anderson Cooper of CNN called Trump’s performance at the press conference “disgraceful”. Police-state liar, former CIA Director John Brennan, tweeted that President Trump’s “press conference performance in Helsinki rises & exceeds the threshold of ‘high crimes & misdemeanors'”.
Donald Trump’s press conference performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the threshold of “high crimes & misdemeanors.” It was nothing short of treasonous. Not only were Trump’s comments imbecilic, he is wholly in the pocket of Putin. Republican Patriots: Where are you???
— John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) July 16, 2018
Speaking of tweets, the hashtag #TreasonSummit actually became a thing, proving once and for all that we were right about the real “achievements” of the Obama Administration (see video below). Several other examples abound which provide fodder to perpetuate the false left versus right and the new Trump versus the establishment narratives used to divide and conquer us all for the George Soroses and Sheldon Adelsons of the world. Nonetheless, President Trump’s willingness to proceed with the summit in the face of domestic political pressure for a new cold war should not be dismissed. As Trump said during the press conference, “Nothing would be easier politically than to refuse to meet, to refuse to engage. But that would not accomplish anything. As President, I cannot make decisions on foreign policy in a futile effort to appease partisan critics or the media, or Democrats who want to do nothing but resist and obstruct.”
Related:
- Trump Upbeat on Foreign Relations, Calls RussiaGate “Artificial Barrier” to Better Relations with Russia, November 12, 2017
- Trump, Putin Issue Joint Statement from Da Nang, November 11, 2017
- Full Text Reading of the Russian Hacking Report, January 10, 2017
Resource Links:
- Remarks by President Trump and President Putin of the Russian Federation in Joint Press Conference, The White House [Press Release], July 16, 2018
- President Trump Holds a Joint Press Conference with the President of the Russian Federation, WhiteHouse.gov [Video], July 16, 2018
- WHAT YOU’RE NOT BEING TOLD ABOUT TRUMP & PUTIN IN HELSINKI, WeAreChange.org [Video], July 16, 2018
- Anderson Cooper: Trump performance disgraceful, CNN, July 16, 2018
