{"id":34248,"date":"2017-07-11T04:55:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T04:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=34248"},"modified":"2017-07-11T04:55:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T04:55:35","slug":"trump-raised-sanctions-with-putin-over-us-election-meddling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/trump-raised-sanctions-with-putin-over-us-election-meddling.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump raised sanctions with Putin over US election meddling"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Trump raised sanctions with Putin over US election meddling, White House says<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Trump raised sanctions with Putin over US election meddling:- Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin discussed sanctions related to Russian meddling in the 2016 US election when they met last week, the White House said on Monday, contradicting an earlier statement by the US president.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">In the first White House press briefing in 10 days, spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that during the two presidents\u2019 meeting on Friday, \u201cthere were sanctions specific to election meddling that I believe were discussed, but not beyond that\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">On Sunday, Trump had denied that the subject had been raised.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Russian efforts to sway the election in Trump\u2019s favor loomed large over Friday\u2019s meeting on the fringes of the G20 summit in Hamburg. US intelligence agencies have concluded that Putin himself ordered a campaign to undermine the candidacy of Hillary Clinton, and according to the US secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, the accusation was the first subject Trump raised.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The meeting, which lasted two hours and 16 minutes \u2013 far longer than the half an hour originally scheduled \u2013 was one of the consequential moments of Trump\u2019s second foreign trip as president.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">It came as the US Senate has passed new sanctions against Russia by an overwhelming majority. The bill currently faces a vote in the House with substantial White House pressure to weaken it and give the administration more freedom to impose waivers on proposed sanctions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">On Sunday, Putin said he thought Trump \u201cwas satisfied\u201d with his denial of involvement. \u201c[Trump] asked a lot of questions on this subject,\u201d Putin said. \u201cI, inasmuch as I was able, answered these questions. It seems to me that he took these [answers] on board and agreed with them, but in actual fact, it\u2019s best to ask him how he views this.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">In an off-camera briefing on Monday, Huckabee Sanders could not answer as to whether Trump had accepted Putin\u2019s assertion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Trump \u201cheard Putin\u2019s denial and he knew that, at the end of the day, the important part was them being able to have that conversation and him to directly ask him. He heard his answer and he moved forward with places he thought that he could work together,\u201d Huckabee Sanders said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The White House spokeswoman added of the meeting that she was \u201cnot sure\u201d if Trump had mentioned human rights in the meeting with the Russian president.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/jul\/10\/donald-trump-putin-meeting-russia-sanctions-us-election<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/trump-raised-sanctions-with-putin-over-us-election-meddling.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump raised sanctions with Putin over US election meddling, White House says Trump raised sanctions with Putin over US election meddling:- Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin discussed sanctions related to Russian meddling in the 2016 US election when they met last week, the White House said on Monday, contradicting an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[837,6221,21074,5614,706,6862],"class_list":["post-34248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-russia","tag-trump-raised-sanctions-with-putin-over-us-election-meddling","tag-us-elections-2016","tag-us-news","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}