#StrongerTogether ! "The cozy meeting between President Trump and Russia’s foreign minister came at Vladimir Putin’s insistence"

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"Russia’s Oval Office Victory Dance

The cozy meeting between President Trump and Russia’s foreign minister came at Vladimir Putin’s insistence.

By SUSAN B. GLASSER | MAY 10, 2017

When President Donald Trump hosted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Oval Office on Wednesday just hours after firing the FBI director who was overseeing an investigation into whether Trump’s team colluded with the Russians, he was breaking with recent precedent at the specific request of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The chummy White House visit—photos of the president yukking it up with Lavrov and Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak were released by the Russian Foreign Ministry since no U.S. press was allowed to cover the visit—had been one of Putin’s asks in his recent phone call with Trump, and indeed the White House acknowledged this to me later Wednesday. “He chose to receive him because Putin asked him to,” a White House spokesman said of Trump’s Lavrov meeting. “Putin did specifically ask on the call when they last talked.” ... "

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