Trump is now advocating for Russia to be allowed back into the G7 after they were kicked out in 2014 over the annexation of Crimea:
President Trump says Russia should be allowed back into the G7 https://t.co/rVSYhvRxeC pic.twitter.com/0iAC0AwNB1
— New Day (@NewDay) June 8, 2018
Here’s more from Politico:
President Donald Trump on Friday called for Russia to be reinstated into the group of the world’s largest economies, from which it was removed in 2014 after its forced annexation of Crimea away from Ukraine.
“Now, I love our country. I have been Russia’s worst nightmare,” Trump said. “But with that being said, Russia should be in this meeting. Why are we having a meeting without Russia being in the meeting?”
Trump made the remarks on the White House’s south lawn as he departed for this weekend’s G-7 summit in Quebec, which he will depart early from in order to travel to Singapore, where he is scheduled to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
The G-7, short for group of seven, was previously the G-8 until 2014, when the group’s members expelled Russia over its invasion and annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region, a shift in international borders that remains widely unrecognized among Western nations. The G-7’s current membership includes the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom.
“I would recommend — and it’s up to them, but Russia should be in the meeting, it should be a part of it. You know, whether you like it or not, and it may not be politically correct, but we have a world to run,” Trump told reporters outside the White House. “And in the G-7, which used to be the G-8, they threw Russia out. They should let Russia come back in. Because we should have Russia at the negotiating table.”
So I guess Crimea doesn’t matter anymore? Also what about Russia trying to tamper with our 2016 elections? We have sanctions on them over it, after all.
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