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    As Trump plans Putin meeting, Europeans fear further meddling by Moscow

    by Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times Jul 05, 2018 4 minutes

    WASHINGTON - The day the White House announced plans for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump publicly doubted whether Moscow had interfered with the campaign that landed him in the White House.

    "Russia continues to say they had nothing to do with Meddling in our Election!" Trump tweeted, contradicting the persistent conclusions of his own country's intelligence agencies.

    Such statements have stirred controversy here for the last two years. Now they're also rattling U.S. allies in Europe, where Moscow has deployed some of the same disinformation tactics that it used to manipulate the U.S. campaign.

    As Trump prepares to meet with Putin on July 16 in Helsinki,

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