Turnberry — US President Donald Trump said he had low expectations for the Monday summit with Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin just days after 12 Russian intelligence officers were charged by a federal grand jury for hacking the Democrats ahead of the 2016 election. The summit, which comes at one of the most crucial junctures for the West since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, has alarmed some Nato allies who fear Putin might seek a grand deal that undermines the US-led transatlantic alliance. Trump, who has been preparing for the summit by playing golf at his Trump Turnberry course on the western coast of Scotland, told CBS in an interview that "nothing bad" would come out of the summit with Putin. "I go in with low expectations," Trump told CBS in Turnberry. "I’m not going with high expectations." A US federal grand jury charged 12 Russian intelligence officers on Friday with hacking Democratic computer networks in 2016, in the most detailed US accusation yet that Moscow meddled in ...
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