Donald Trump invites Vladimir Putin to Washington

Senior intelligence staff caught off-guard by invitation to Russian president

Donald Trump has sided with Putin over Russian meddling in US elections
Trump and Putin in Helsinki
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Donald Trump will invite Vladimir Putin to visit Washington this autumn after the pair’s recent meeting in Helsinki, The White House has announced.

News of the invitation “stunned the nation’s top intelligence official”, Dan Coats, The New York Times reports. He first learned of the plan while being interviewed by NBC News at the Aspen Security Forum.

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