Presidents of the United States and Russia Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have agreed to meet to discuss the end of the war in Ukraine. What do we know about relations between the leaders of both countries?
Trump for Putin
Trump in the past has made positive and admirable comments about Putin, who have long caused criticism of him that he has been shining for Russia. He rejected this, stating that no US president had ever been stricter than Moscow.
Trump called Putin a strong and smart leader and stated that he “understood” with him during his first term in the White House. However, since the beginning of his second term, Trump has criticized Putin’s behavior in the “absurd” war in Ukraine and said this conflict “destroyed” Russia.
Putin “has no reason for excitement, he is not doing so well,” Trump told reporters on January 20, on the day of his inauguration.
“Russia is bigger, they have more soldiers who can lose, but this is not a way to govern a country,” Trump said, threatening more sanctions and duties of Russia if Putin disagreed to end the war.
Putin for Trump
Last month, Putin said he had always been in his relationship with Trump from pragmatism and confidence and expressed support for the latter’s false statement that he, not Joe Biden, was the real winner of the 2020 presidential election. Putin said Trump had many things to talk about. Putin also spoke with admiration for Trump’s courage when Sagittarius tried to kill him last year, saying he behaved as a “real man”.
Investigation for conspiracy, election intervention and a summit meeting in 2018.
During Trump’s first term, US prosecutor Robert Muller spent almost two years investigating Russian efforts to influence the US presidential election in 2016 – to which Trump defeated Hillary Clinton – in an attempt to determine if there was a conspiracy between Moscow and Trump’s associates. Muller’s 2019 report concluded that Russia had intervened largely through hacking and misinformation operations, but did not establish any conspiracy or coordination with the Trump campaign. In response to Muller’s report, Trump said: “After three years of lies, slander and abuse, the fraud for Russia is finally dead.”
In July 2018, during the summit with Putin in Helsinki, Trump shocked his own assistants and the US public when – contrary to the conclusion of his own intelligence services – he said he accepted the “extremely strong” position of the Kremlin, the USA was intervened in the United States.
The late Republican Senator John McCain said that no previous US president “has never been put in a more humiliating position in front of a tyrant.” The next day, Trump reversed and said he had been wrong.
Does Putin have compromising Trump materials?
Speculation that Putin may have some control over Trump and is able to blackmail him are being fueled since the advent of a document known as the Steele file, drafted by a business intelligence company led by former British spy.
It was supposed to be, among other things, that Russia may have gathered shocking details of alleged contacts with prostitutes during a visit to Trump in Moscow in 2013. Trump said the file was “fake news” that was distributed by opponents to harm him.
Many of the allegations have never been confirmed, and Trump’s lawyers said the document was “extremely inaccurate” and contained “many false, fake or fictional statements”.
During the Helsinki Putin Summit, it was asked directly if Russia was eating with any “compromising materials” for Trump or his family.
Putin said he did not know about Trump’s trip to Moscow and was “complete nonsense” to assume that Russia was collecting compromises for any higher American businessman coming to Russia.
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