WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump, in an interview with CBS’s Lesley Stahl on Sunday night, said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is “probably” involved in assassinations and poisonings, but “it’s not in our country,” reported CNN.
“Of course they shouldn’t do it,” Trump added.
Trump’s remarks came during a wide-ranging interview on CBS’s 60 Minutes that touched on his relationship with North Korea, China, Russia and his own West Wing staffers and Cabinet.
When asked by Stahl about the accusation that he is leery of criticising Putin, he challenged the question.
“I think I’m very tough with him personally. I had a meeting with him, the two of us,” Trump said, referring to his much-criticised summit with the Russian leader in which he declined at a press conference to endorse the US government’s assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election. “It was a very tough meeting, and it was a very good meeting,” Trump told Stahl.
President Trump spoke on various topics in the interview including trade war with China.
