Donald J. Trump declined to comment on whether he’d talked with the Russian president since leaving office. But he added, “If I have a relationship with people, that’s a good thing.”

The former president, who once pushed to prosecute a former secretary of state for talking with foreign officials, said that it would be “a good thing” for himself to have secretly kept in touch with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia — if he did.

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday refused to say whether he's spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin since leaving office, as reported in journalist Bob Woodward's latest book. But if the two did speak, Trump said, it would be “a smart thing” for the United States. Trump, the Republican presidential…

The former US president refused on Tuesday to say whether he has spoken to the Russian president since leaving office.

Trump declined to say if he has spoken to Putin since leaving office, but he said that it would be a "smart thing" for him to do so.

Two members of former President Donald Trump's administration are warning Americans that if their former boss wins the election, he will be completely untethered by the restrictions that barely kept him in check during his first term.In a Tuesday interview with CNN host Kate Bolduan, Kevin Carroll —...

Former President Donald Trump is refusing to say whether he’s spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin since Trump left the White House.

Former US President Donald Trump claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin had long desired to invade Ukraine, but he alleged that this was prevented during his presidency due to his personal intervention, according to The Telegraph. Speaking at a town hall event in Oaks, Pennsylvania, Trump expressed confidence that if he had remained in office, the invasion would not have occurred.

Trump made the claims in a contentious interview with Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait from the Chicago Economic Club Tuesday.