Pelosi Statement on President Trump’s Meeting with Putin

Contact: Ashley Etienne/Caroline Behringer, 202-226-7616

San Francisco – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement as President Trump returned from the G20 Meeting in Hamburg, where he participated in a bilateral meeting with President Putin:

"The reports from President Trump's private, two-hour meeting with Putin leave the American people asking why the President continues to fawn over Putin instead of standing up for the integrity of America's democracy. U.S. intelligence officials have concluded with high confidence that Russia intervened in the 2016 election, but Trump still refuses to accept this truth.

"Setting up a joint working group on cybersecurity with the country that hacked our election infrastructure is a nonsensical and absurdly inadequate response to the Russian threat. Yet, the Trump Administration and Republicans continue to ignore Democrats' calls for a truly independent, American-led commission to protect our democracy from further foreign meddling.

"While President Trump enjoys the ‘honor' of meeting the architect of a brazen assault on American and European democracies, House Democrats will fight to hold Russia accountable. We hope Republicans will join us to immediately to send strong Russia sanctions legislation to the President's desk."

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