Trump invites Putin to Washington amid US uproar on Helsinki summit
The invitation follows criticism of Trump's handling of the first summit with his Russian counterpart, particularly his seeming acceptance of Putin's denial that Moscow interfered in 2016 US election.
President Donald Trump extended an invitation to Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet in Washington in the autumn, the White House said on Thursday.
Press secretary Sarah Sanders said on Twitter that Trump had asked National Security Adviser John Bolton to invite Putin, adding, "Those discussions are already underway.
The invitation was announced hours after the president tweeted that he looked forward to "our second meeting" as he defended his performance on Monday at the summit in which the two leaders conferred on a range of issues, including terrorism, Israeli security, nuclear proliferation and North Korea.
"There are many answers, some easy and some hard, to these problems ... but they can ALL be solved!" Trump tweeted.
The announcement of the invitation came as the White House sought to clean up days of confounding statements on the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election that sent Trump to the presidency.
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