Well this is awkward. Remember when we were all up in arms because Obama sounded like he was in bed with the Russians? Well… now it’s back in fashion!!
POTUS had a 2nd, previously undisclosed conversation w/ Putin on 7/7 in Hamburg during "couples only" G20 dinner, NSC spox confirms to CNN.
— Dianne Gallagher (@DianneG) July 18, 2017
Wait.. what?!
President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, spoke for a second time on July 7 following their two-hour-long bilateral meeting earlier that day.
“There was a couples-only social dinner at the G20. Toward the end, the President spoke to Putin at the dinner,” National Security Council spokesman Michael Anton told CNN Tuesday.
“No staff or Cabinet were at the dinner at all, for any of the countries,” with the exception of translators, Anton said.
Trump and Putin did not go to a separate room for their conversation, but remained in the main room where the dinner was being hosted, Anton said.
Anton declined to provide details on the Trump-Putin conversation, citing the fact that no staff were present.
Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group think tank, first reported that Trump and Putin had the previously undisclosed conversation.
Okie dokie. You would think he wouldn’t want to have private undisclosed meetings with Putin when accused of colluding with the Russians, but you would be WRONG in thinking that, buddy!!
UPDATE!!
This is from MSNBC so… grain of salt.
BREAKING on MSNBC: Leaders of the G20 were "befuddled" at spectacle of Trump and Putin excusing themselves for a private, hour-long meeting.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) July 18, 2017
A mound of salt then.