Hillary Clinton slams President Trump over his summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin

Hillary Clinton on Saturday weighed in on the recent Helsinki summit between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, which included a private meeting with only the two leaders and their interpreters present.

“We don’t know what was said in the room with just the two of them,” Clinton said during an appearance at the OZY Fest. “Usually you need others in there and you particularly need a note taker so that there can be no mistake about what was said.”

“And what’s happening now is that Putin is basically telling the world what was decided,” she added. “And we’re hearing crickets from the White House. Nothing is being put out that is in any way contradictory or replacing the Putin agenda with whatever trump was doing. So it’s alarming and it’s alarming on many, many levels.”

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Trump has also faced criticism for not denouncing Russia’s election meddling during the summit’s press conference with Putin.

Trump cast doubt on the US intelligence community’s findings that Russia made significant efforts to interfere in the 2016 election and appeared to accept the Russian leader’s claim to the contrary.

“I have president Putin, he just said it’s not Russia,” the US president commented. “I will say this. I don’t see any reason why it would be.”

Reacting to Trump’s remarks, Clinton said on Saturday: “the great mystery is why the president has not spoken up for our country.”

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