Political Wire -“President Trump joked with Vladimir Putin about getting rid of journalists when the two leaders met at the G-20 summit in Japan,” the Guardian reports. Said Trump: “Get rid of them. Fake news is a great term, isn’t it? You don’t have this problem in Russia but we do.” Replied Putin: “We also have. It’s the same.” “Twenty-six journalists have been murdered in Russia since Putin first became president, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists many of them investigative reporters scrutinising governmental abuses.”
AFP -Much of Donald Trump's time in office has been overshadowed by allegations Moscow helped get him elected, but when it came to confronting Vladimir Putin on the issue, the US president did it in a joke. "Don't meddle in the election, president, don't meddle," Trump said with a smile, wagging his finger playfully at the Russian leader as the pair held talks in Osaka on Friday, on the sidelines of the G20. Putin said nothing, but grinned in response to the comment, which came only after a reporter shouted a question, asking whether Trump would warn his Russian counterpart about influencing the presidential vote next year.
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