Indictment of Russian officers puts pressure on Trump at Putin summit

When asked at a news conference in Britain on Friday whether he would tell Putin to stay out of US elections, Trump said "yes"

If US President Donald Trump was inclined to be tentative when raising election meddling with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, the indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officers with hacking in 2016 has made that approach a much harder sell.

A federal grand jury on Friday alleged that officers of Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU, secretly monitored computers and stole data from the campaign of Trump’s former rival, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

The charges put an even greater spotlight on Trump’s treatment of Putin, who has denied making efforts to intervene in the US election that Trump, a Republican, unexpectedly