{"id":1002718,"date":"2018-10-23T14:48:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T14:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1002718"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:15:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:15:16","slug":"dnc-on-trump-meeting-with-putin-after-midterm-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-trump-meeting-with-putin-after-midterm-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC on Trump Meeting With Putin After Midterm Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">In response to Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeoffRBennett\/status\/1054783330338639872\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reportedly<\/a> agreeing to meet with Vladimir Putin days after the midterm elections, DNC spokesperson Daniel Wessel released the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cTrump stood on the international stage and sided with Vladimir Putin over U.S. intelligence agencies. Trump has continued to downplay the Kremlin\u2019s attack on our democracy in the 2016 election and has done nothing to prevent them from attacking us again. And now, to top things off, Trump has agreed to meet with Putin just days after our midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt is a sickening reality that the president of the United States refuses to put our democracy ahead of a foreign adversary or his own political interests &#8212; and Republicans have remained silent in the face of this growing threat. The only thing left to do is elect more Democrats who will hold them accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to Trump reportedly agreeing to meet with Vladimir Putin days after the midterm elections, DNC spokesperson Daniel Wessel released the following statement: &nbsp; \u201cTrump stood on the international stage and sided with Vladimir Putin over U.S. intelligence agencies. Trump has continued to downplay the Kremlin\u2019s attack on our democracy in the 2016 election [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DNC on Trump Meeting With Putin After Midterm Elections - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-trump-meeting-with-putin-after-midterm-elections\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-10-23T14:48:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T20:15:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-trump-meeting-with-putin-after-midterm-elections\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-trump-meeting-with-putin-after-midterm-elections\/\",\"name\":\"DNC on Trump Meeting With Putin After Midterm Elections - 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