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Trump inviting Putin to Washington this fall


Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump hopes to welcome Russian President Vladimir Putin in Washington this fall, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement Thursday.

"President Trump asked (national security adviser John Bolton) to invite President Putin to Washington in the fall and those discussions are already underway," Sanders tweeted Thursday, hours after Trump tweeted he is "looking forward" to meeting again with Putin to "begin implementing" issues they discussed during their summit earlier this week.

The invitation was extended to Putin by Bolton earlier on Thursday, according to a National Security Council spokesman.

The pair of tweets were the latest indication that Trump is doubling down on his Russian rapprochement strategy even as his approach to Putin continues to draw bipartisan criticism and questions abound as to what Trump and Putin agreed to during their first meeting.

The Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said he still does not know what Trump and Putin discussed on Monday and was caught off-guard during an interview Thursday by news that Trump and Putin were planning a second meeting in Washington this fall.

"Say that again?" Coats offered. "That's gonna be special."
White House officials have not explained why Coats was not informed about the invitation in advance.

The preparations for a second Trump-Putin meeting -- and in Washington no less -- were the latest twist in Trump's winding road back from Helsinki. Since he refused to back the US intelligence community's assessment of Russian interference in 2016, Trump has alternated between trying to quell the political uproar he ignited and seeking to avoid backing down from his handling of the summit.

Trump later said he misspoke when he suggested he didn't believe Russia was behind a cyber influence campaign in 2016, but he has not acknowledged that he repeatedly put the US intelligence community's assessment and Putin's denials on the same footing -- even giving added credence to Putin's denial.

Instead, Trump has used his clean-up remarks to again insist that there was "no collusion" between his campaign and Moscow, while also insisting that it "could be other people also" who interfered in the 2016 election.

And while he later acknowledged in an interview with CBS News that Putin was responsible for the effort to undermine the election, he only attributed that responsibility to Putin being "in charge of the country." The New York Times later reported, and the former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper confirmed to CNN, that Trump was briefed on specific US intelligence indicating that Putin personally ordered the 2016 Russian influence campaign.

Trump on Wednesday again reignited the controversy when he replied "no" when asked if Russia is still targeting the United States, directly contradicting the current Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders claimed later in the day that Trump was saying "no" to answering additional questions.

On Thursday, Trump offered fresh remarks, claiming to CNBC he has been "far tougher on Russia than any president in many, many years" and warning that he would be Putin's "worst enemy" if their diplomatic engagement does not work out.

News of a second Trump-Putin summit came soon after the Senate voted unanimously to rebuke Putin's attempt to convince Trump to hand over current and former American officials for questioning -- an offer Trump had previously called "incredible. Moments before the vote, the White House rebuked its openness to Putin's offer.

Trump on Thursday also accused the news media -- which he again dubbed the "enemy of the people" -- of distorting the summit and pining for a confrontation between the US and Russia, blaming reporters even as much of the coverage this week has focused on Republicans' condemnations.

In a series of tweets Thursday morning, Trump argued his summit with Putin "was a great success."
"The Summit with Russia was a great success, except with the real enemy of the people, the Fake News Media," Trump said. "I look forward to our second meeting so that we can start implementing some of the many things discussed, including stopping terrorism, security for Israel, nuclear proliferation, cyber attacks, trade, Ukraine, Middle East peace, North Korea and more."

"There are many answers, some easy and some hard, to these problems...but they can ALL be solved!" Trump tweeted.

Putin has signaled in the wake of his summit with Trump that he and the US President reached several agreements, but neither Trump nor the White House have confirmed any substantive agreements between the two countries.

Trump's "enemy of the people" attack on Thursday marked the second time Trump has emerged from a summit with a dictator who has restricted press freedoms and subsequently attacked the news media as an "enemy."

"Our Country's biggest enemy is the Fake News so easily promulgated by fools!" Trump tweeted last month after he drew heat for overplaying the outcome of his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

CNN's Jeff Zeleny contributed to this report.

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Trump Rejects Proposal For Russia to Interrogate US Citizens


US President Donald Trump has rejected a proposal made by the Russian leader Vladimir Putin that Russia be allowed to question US citizens.

The White House earlier said it would consider it but now says Mr Trump "disagrees" with the suggestion.

The offer was made at a summit of the two leaders. In return, Mr Putin suggested he might allow access to 12 Russians indicted by the US.

The idea of allowing a foreign power to quiz US citizens sparked outrage.

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"It is a proposal that was made in sincerity by President Putin, but President Trump disagrees with it," White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said on Thursday.

"Hopefully President Putin will have the 12 identified Russians come to the United States to prove their innocence or guilt," she said.

She also tweeted that Mr Trump has asked his National Security Adviser John Bolton to invite Mr Putin to Washington later this year.

The idea appeared to take US Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats by surprise. He was being interviewed when he was told about the tweet.

"That's going to be special", he said.

What was on offer?
In what President Trump called a "tremendous" gesture, Mr Putin said he would let US prosecutors interview the 12 Russians in exchange for Russian access to US nationals the Kremlin accuses of "illegal actions".

The individuals are related to Russia's case against the financier Bill Browder, a fierce Putin critic who was instrumental in the US imposing sanctions in 2012 on top Russian officials accused of corruption.

Mr Browder told the BBC he was glad President Trump "isn't going to hand me over to President Putin".

But he added: "I'm a little amazed that this whole conversation has taken place over a three-day period when Trump should have immediately rejected it, as any other head of state would have."

Russia was also seeking to interview Michael McFaul, another Putin critic who was US ambassador to Moscow under President Obama.


Allowing Russian officials to interview Mr McFaul would be a violation of the longstanding tradition that foreign diplomats have legal immunity.

Criticism has piled up: The Senate voted 98-0 on a resolution warning President Trump not to allow Russia to question diplomats and other officials.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the idea "deeply troubling", President Obama's ex-National Security Adviser Susan Rice said it was "outrageous" while even the current Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said it was "not going to happen".

Trump prepares a sequel
By the BBC's Anthony Zurcher in Washington

Donald Trump has tweeted that the summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin was a "great success" and people at "higher ends of intelligence" loved his Helsinki news conference. As if to underline that point, plans are already under way for a sequel - this time in Washington DC.

Never mind that the White House has spent three days trying to clean up the political fallout from the summit amid bipartisan criticism, or that the special counsel investigation into Russian meddling in 2016 continues apace.

Mr Trump may have been encouraged by recent opinion polling showing that while the public at large is uneasy with Mr Trump's Russia policies, his Republican base - by a sizeable majority - is fine with his performance.

The president campaigned on closer ties with Russia, a goal that had been thwarted during his first year in office. With his base still behind him, Mr Trump appears ready to press on with his efforts.

What's happened since the Trump-Putin summit?
Following his first summit with Vladimir Putin, President Trump has been fighting accusations he failed to stand up to the Russian leader.

He clarified remarks he made at a news conference after the meeting, in which he said he saw no reason why Russia would meddle in the 2016 US election - despite US intelligence concluding just that.

Speaking to CBS News on Wednesday, Mr Trump said he held Mr Putin personally responsible for interfering in the election, and that he was "very strong on the fact that we can't have meddling".

Both men have hailed the summit. In a series of tweets Mr Trump said he was keen to meet Mr Putin again.



Mr Putin also described the summit as "successful" but warned "there are forces in the United States that are prepared to casually sacrifice Russian-US relations".



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Obama Loses 2 Million+ Followers During Twitter Fake Account Purge



Former U.S. President Barack Obama lost over 2 million followers on Twitter during the platform’s purge of “suspicious” accounts this week, while other celebrities lost hundreds of thousands.

According to Variety, Obama lost 2.36 million followers, which amounts to around 2.3 percent of his followers.

Singer Katy Perry and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres lost 2.6 percent of their followers, while singers Justin Bieber and Rihanna lost 2.5 percent.

President Trump lost 300,000 followers.

On Wednesday, it was reported that Twitter would be purging “tens of millions” of “suspicious” accounts in an attempt to crack down on fake users and “restore trust.”

Following the purge, popular Twitter accounts, including conservative figures, complained about the follower reduction.



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Kevin Nicholson Team: Tammy Baldwin a ‘Liberal Obstructionist’ for Opposing Brett Kavanaugh


Kevin Nicholson’s campaign labeled Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) a “liberal obstructionist” on Thursday for opposing President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
Baldwin announced on Thursday that she will oppose Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court.

“After reviewing this nominee’s record, I know why powerful special interests in Washington selected Judge Brett Kavanaugh to work on the Supreme Court for them, not the people of Wisconsin,” Baldwin said in a statement.


Baldwin also cautioned that another Trump Supreme Court justice might overturn Obamacare, eliminate pre-existing conditions, and overturn Roe v. Wade.

“The people of Wisconsin need a fair, impartial and independent Supreme Court Justice who will stand up for them, not for powerful special interests. I don’t have confidence that Judge Kavanaugh would be that justice,” Baldwin added.

Marine veteran and businessman Kevin Nicolson’s campaign slammed the Wisconsin Democrat in a statement on Thursday, calling her a “liberal obstructionist. Nicholson’s team said:

It is no surprise that a liberal obstructionist like Tammy Baldwin has announced she will vote against the confirmation of President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. This is just one of many reasons why we need to defeat Baldwin and increase the Republican majority in the United States Senate. Kevin Nicholson is endorsed by Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee because he will fight for Brett Kavanaugh and other Constitutional originalist nominees like him.

Baldwin has become the second red-state Democrat to oppose Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court. Before President Trump announced his pick, Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) said that he will oppose whomever the 45th president nominates. Other red-state Democrats such as Sens. Jon Tester (D-MT), Bill Nelson (D-FL), and Joe Manchin (D-WV) have remained open to backing Trump’s nominee.

Conservatives on Capitol Hill have also endorsed Nicholson for U.S. Senate.


FreedomWorks President Adam Brandon said of Nicholson, “FreedomWorks for America is pleased to endorse Kevin Nicholson, who has served admirably, for the U.S. Senate seat currently occupied by an opponent of fiscal responsibility and conservative values, Tammy Baldwin.”

Great America PAC, a pro-Trump super PAC, endorsed Nicholson last October. FreedomWorks and Club for Growth, two conservative grassroots activist groups, also backed Nicholson for U.S. Senate.

Nicholson has also capitalized on President Trump’s signature issue, immigration, and advocated for building a wall as well as an immigration system that will raise American wages.

In an interview with Breitbart News Sunday, Nicholson said, “We need an economically sustainable sensible plan that shuts down illegal immigration and has a merit-based sensible immigration policy… and that’s what we should be pushing for.”


“[On] the construction of a physical barrier, I’m a former combat engineer in the Marine Corps, and barriers work. They do stop people from crossing them, and that is the entire idea behind them,” Nicholson added.

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17-Year-Old Girl Stabbed to Death in London as Trump Arrives for UK Visit


A 17-year-old girl has been stabbed to death in broad daylight on Thursday in South London.
Emergency services were called to a report of a stabbing to Brisbane Street, Camberwell, at just after 12pm but the victim was pronounced dead on the scene.

A 21-year-old man, who is reported to be known to the victim, was arrested on suspicion of murder.


This is the first violent fatality in the capital for the month of July in a city in the grip of a crime wave where in June, stabbings were reported on a nearly daily basis.

The Sun reports that there have been 1,296 stabbings in London reported to the end of April, alone.


More than 80 people have been killed in London since January — many of who are under the age of 20 — and murders this year are expected to exceed 2017’s figures.

The fatal stabbing came on the day President Donald J Trump arrived in the UK for meetings with Prime Minister Theresa May.


In an interview with The Sun, President Trump criticised leftist Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan for spiralling crime in the capital telling the tabloid he thinks the Mayor “has done a bad job on crime” noting “all of the horrible things going on there”.

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Trump: May’s Brexit Plan ‘Will Probably Kill’ U.S. Trade Deal


President Donald J. Trump has said that the British government’s proposed soft Brexit plan “will probably kill” a bilateral trade deal with the U.S., and he criticised Prime Minister Theresa May for ignoring his advice on dealing with the European Union.

President Trump made the comments in an interview with British Newspaper The Sun ahead of his visit to the UK and represent his strongest criticisms of May’s handling of Brexit after the Prime Minister unveiled a soft Brexit vision of future UK-EU relationships that would see Britain effectively tied to many of the bloc’s institutions.

“If they do a deal like that, we would be dealing with the European Union instead of dealing with the UK, so it will probably kill the deal,” President Trump told the tabloid.

If they do that, then their trade deal with the US will probably not be made.”

The President then went on to explain that the Prime Minister’s White Paper proposal “will definitely affect trade with the United States, unfortunately in a negative way”.

“We have enough difficulty with the European Union,” he added.

“We are cracking down right now on the European Union because they have not treated the United States fairly on trading.




“No, if they do that I would say that that would probably end a major trade relationship with the United States.”

President Trump is due to meet with Mrs May Friday morning followed by a working lunch and joint press conference.



The comments in The Sun will come as a further blow to the Prime Minister — who voted to remain in the June 2016 EU referendum — after Boris Johnson and David Davis resigned from her cabinet as foreign secretary and Brexit secretary respectively, over their belief that her deal would give away too much control to the bloc.

The 100-page plus White Paper (a government draft proposal to be discussed before a Bill is formally presented to Parliament) was published in full on Thursday which Brexiteers criticised as “not what people voted for” and which “recreate the worst aspects of the EU British people voted to leave”.



Present Trump speculated at an impromptu NATO press conference Thursday whether Mrs May’s plans were what “they [the British] voted for”; should there be any question of the President’s meaning from those comments, President Trump told the tabloid ahead of his European trip: “The deal she is striking is a much ­different deal than the one the people voted on.

“It was not the deal that was in the referendum. I have just been hearing this over the last three days. I know they have had a lot of resignations. So a lot of people don’t like it.”



President Trump also criticised Mrs May for failing to heed his advice on how to deal with the EU — which coming from a billionaire businessman and property mogul was likely very sound. He said she ignored his advice and went “the opposite way”, adding that he believed the results have been “very unfortunate”.

Former foreign secretary Boris Johnson criticised May’s negotiating with the EU in June, remarking that had President Trump been in charge of dealing with the bloc he would have gone “in bloody hard”.

When these comments were presented to President Trump, he told The Sun, “He is right.”



He added: “I would have done it much differently. I actually told Theresa May how to do it but she didn’t agree, she didn’t listen to me.

“[Mrs May] wanted to go a different route.

“I would actually say that she probably went the opposite way. And that is fine.

“She should negotiate the best way she knows how. But it is too bad what is going on.”

When asked if that meants he was prepared to walk away from the negotiating table, he replied: “Oh, absolutely. I think what is going on is very unfortunate. Too long.



“You know, deals that take too long are never good ones. When a deal takes so long, they never work out very well.”



Despite President Trump’s criticisms of May’s performance, he had warm words for the Prime Minister saying she is “a very good person” and denied he ever called her a “bossy schoolteacher” or said she bored him.

“That is fake news. I think she is a nice person. I get along with her very nicely. The Washington Post is totally fake. They are just a lobbyist for Amazon.”

After bilateral meetings with Prime Minister May, President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump head to Windsor Castle for tea with Queen Elizabeth II. The President and First Lady will then fly to Glasgow and travel on to President Trump’s golf course in Turnberry.


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Why does Trump hate on Jeff Bezos: is it about power or money?


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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sits between Donald Trump and Jeff Bezos at a White House meeting last year. Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP

Nestled between the embassy of Myanmar and the historic home of President Woodrow Wilson, the biggest house in Washington DC is taking shape. A yellow digger is parked outside, construction workers throw sandbags over their backs, and thick black tubes stretch from high windows to the ground like the legs of a giant octopus. Inside, a foreman in a baseball cap sits behind a desk at a laptop. “Going good,” he says.

This will be the luxury home of Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, owner of the Washington Post and would-be first man on Mars. A sign on the corner of S Street in the swish Kalorama neighbourhood still points to the textile museum that occupied the 27,000 sq ft property before Bezos bought it for $23m. Along the row there are flags and signs supporting immigrants and gay rights; there are diplomatic outposts including the Irish ambassador’s residence. On one doorstep, the inevitable: a package from Amazon.

Renovation of the Bezos mega-mansion is due for completion in September 2019, granting the multibillionare ready access to the Post’s state-of-the-art headquarters on K Street and, potentially, Amazon’s second HQ, for which Washington and surrounding areas are pushing hard. In a city where Donald Trump occupies the White House and owns a huge five-star hotel, it appears the stage is set for an epic battle: the world’s richest man versus its most powerful.

For two and a half years Trump has launched Twitter attacks against Bezos, spuriously claiming Amazon benefits from billions of dollars in subsidies from the US Postal Service while dodging the taxman. Few doubt the president’s animus is truly motivated by Bezos’s ownership of the Post – a bastion of what he calls the “fake news” media – along with, perhaps, envy of his wealth.

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