Trump rejects Putin's request to interrogate Ambassador McFaul, the former US envoy to Russia
by Eli Stokols, Los Angeles Times
Jul 19, 2018
4 minutes
WASHINGTON_President Donald Trump, after coming under fire for even considering the idea, on Thursday decided not to allow Russia to interrogate a former U.S. ambassador and other Americans, as Russia's President Vladimir Putin proposed during their summit in Helsinki, Finland.
"It is a proposal that was made in sincerity by President Putin, but President Trump disagrees with it," press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement.
Putin had floated the idea as part of a swap, under which he would allow 12 Russian operatives indicted last week in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's investigation of Moscow's election interference to be
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