US President Donald Trump commented one more time his recent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Trump accused the media of mischaracterizing his meeting with Putin and said relations with Moscow were being hampered by special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into the 2016 election.
"I had a great meeting with Putin. We got along really well," US Today cited the US President as saying.
Trump said he was surprised by the coverage of the summit in Helsinki last month. Republican lawmakers said Trump was overly deferential toward Putin and they criticized him for appearing to accept the Russian president's denial that Moscow interfered in the 2016 election. The president later said that he misspoke.
"Whatever happened to diplomacy?" Trump asked. "Whatever happened to honest reporting?"
