Assistants Donald trump has ignored the wishes of the President of the United States to build a meeting with the Russian leader Vladimir Putin, writes the Washington post citing sources. the journal emphasizes that interest trump personal meeting with the Russian leader was publicized after the fact, as President in March, had phone conversations, during which the American leader made the initiative to arrange a bilateral summit. However, according to WP, trump asked his assistants to build a bilateral dialogue in November 2017 after a meeting with the Russian President on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Vietnam. the Washington post reports that the state security Council the United States opposed the idea of a bilateral summit and didn't take trump's words as an order. "They made a decision: let's wait and see again whether he will raise this question ",