President Trump, participating in a bilateral meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney as world leaders gathered in Alberta for the G7 summit, called it a “mistake” for Russia to have been removed from the G8 in 2014 for annexing Crimea.
“The G7 used to be the G8,” Trump said. “Barack Obama and a person named Trudeau didn’t want to have Russia in. And I would say that that was a mistake, because I think you wouldn’t have a war right now if you had Russia in.”
“It was a mistake in that you spend so much time talking about Russia. And he’s no longer at the table, so it makes life more complicated,” Trump added.
