2016 ELECTION/EU/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump plans to raise the issue of Russia’s ‘malign activity’ in Europe, its efforts to meddle in the 2016 U.S. election and allegations that Moscow possesses banned missile technology in a one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin later this month, a senior administration official said Thursday [7-5-18]. Messrs. Trump and Putin are set to meet July 16 in Helsinki, Finland, for their first formal bilateral meeting. The two will meet alone, before being joined by their advisers for an extended meeting later that day, the official said, in a telephone briefing with reporters. Mr. Trump plans to press Mr. Putin over Moscow’s use of ‘hybrid warfare’—shorthand for Russia’s use of information warfare in tandem with political or military confrontation, the senior administration official said, as well as over its activities in the Balkans and the U.K., which earlier this year accused Mr. Putin of ordering a nerve-agent attack against a Russian former double agent in Britain. European Union leaders supported the U.K. in its accusation, and the U.S. heightened sanctions on Russia, in part over its alleged role in the poisoning.”
-Rebecca Ballhaus, “Trump Plans to Raise Russian Election-Meddling With Putin,” The Wall Street Journal, July 5, 2018 1:38 pm