Trump blames Obama and ‘a person named Trudeau’ for the G8-to-G7 shrink As the annual G7 Summit kicks off in Canada, President Trump told reporters that removing President Vladimir Putin from the group was a mistake, and had they not done so, the Kremlin’s over two-year war against Ukraine would not have happened. “They threw Russia out, which I claimed was a very big mistake, even though I wasn’t in politics then. I was very loud about it,” Trump said. He reasoned, “You spend so much time