President Donald Trump said in an interview this week that he has not brought up allegations that Russia issued bounties for the killing of American…
President Donald Trump said in an interview this week that he has not brought up allegations that Russia issued bounties for the killing of American troops in Afghanistan with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Trump last spoke with Putin on July 23.
“That was a phone call to discuss other things,” Trump told Axios on Tuesday. “Frankly, that’s an issue that many people said was fake news.”
Trump added later: “I have never discussed it with him. We would, I’d have no problem with it.”
The president earlier this week declined to share specifics on what he and Putin talked about.
“We don’t talk about what we discussed, but we had plenty of discussion, and I think it was very productive,” he told reporters at the White House.
The discussion with his counterpart centered on nuclear proliferation, Trump said in the interview.
“Nobody ever brings up China. They always bring [up] Russia, Russia. If we can do something with Russia in terms of nuclear proliferation, which is a very big problem—bigger problem than global warming, a much bigger problem than global warming, in terms of the real world—that can be a good thing,” he said.
